The accomplisht cook: or, The art & mystery of cookery

of the beef. _Beef fried otherways, being roasted and cold._ Slice it into good big slices, then fry them in butter, and serve them with butter and vinegar, garnish them with fried parsley. _Sauces for the raw fried Beef._ 1. Beaten butter, with slic't lemon beaten together. 2. Gravy and butter. 3. Mustard, butter, and vinegar. 4. Butter, vinegar, minced capers, and nutmeg. For the garnish of this fried meat, either parsley, sage, clary, onions, apples, carrots, parsnips, skirrets, spinage, artichocks, pears, quinces, slic't oranges, or lemons, or fry them in butter. Thus you may fry sweet-breads, udders, and tongues in any of the foresaid ways, with the same sauces and garnish. _To bake Beef in Lumps several ways, or Tongues in lumps raw, or Heifer Udders raw or boil'd._ Take the buttock, brisket, fillet, or fore-rib, cut it into gobbets as big as a pullets egg, with some equal gobbets of fat, season them with pepper, salt, and nutmeg, and bake them with some butter or none. Make the paste with a quarter of a pound of butter, and boiling liquor, boil the butter in the liquor, make up the paste quick and pretty stiff for a round Pie. _To bake Beef, red-Deer-fashion in Pies or Pasties either Surloin, Brisket, Buttock, or Fillet, larded or not._ Take the surloin, bone it, and take off the great sinew that lies on the back, lard the leanest parts of it with great lard, being season'd with nutmegs, pepper, and lard three pounds; then have for the seasoning four ounces of pepper, four ounces of nutmegs, two ounces of ginger, and a pound of salt, season it and put it into the Pie: but first lay a bed of good sweet butter, and a bay-leaf or two, half an ounce of whole cloves, lay on the venison, then put on all the rest of the seasoning, with a few more cloves, good store of butter, and a bay-leaf or two, close it up and bake it, it will ask eight hours soaking, being baked and cold, fill it up with clarified butter,