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

and Soals. SECTION XVIII: The Sixth Section of Fish. The A-la-mode ways of Dressing and Ordering of Sturgeon. SECTION XIX: The Seventh Section of Fish. Shewing the exactest Ways of Dressing all manner of Shell-Fish. SECTION XX: To make all manner of Pottages for Fish-Days. SECTION XXI: The exactest Ways for the Dressing of Eggs. SECTION XXII: The best Ways for the Dressing of Artichocks. SECTION XXIII: Shewing the best way of making Diet for the Sick. SECTION XXIV: Excellent Ways for Feeding of Poultrey. [Index] THE TABLE [Publisher's Advertising] * * * * * * * * * _To the Right Honourable my _Lord Montague,_ My _Lord Lumley,_ and my _Lord Dormer;_ and to the Right worshipful Sir _Kenelme Digby,_ so well known to this Nation for their Admired Hospitalities._ _Right Honourable, and Right Worshipful_, He is an Alien, a meer Stranger in _England_, that hath not been acquainted with your generous House-keepings; for my own part my more particular tyes of service to you my Honoured Lords, have built me up to the height of this Experience, for which this Book now at last dares appear to the World; those times which I tended upon your Honours were those Golden Days of Peace and Hospitality when you enjoyed your own, so as to entertain and releive others. Right Honourable, and Right Worshipful, I have not only been an eye-witness, but interested by my attendance; so as that I may justly acknowledge those Triumphs and magnificent Trophies of Cookery that have adorned your Tables; nor can I but confess to the world, except I should be Guilty of the highest Ingratitude, that the only structure of this my Art and knowledge, I owed to your costs, generous and inimitable Epences; thus not only I have derived my experience, but your Country hath reapt the Plenty of your Humanity and charitable Bounties. Right Honourable, and Right Worshipful, Hospitality which was once a Relique of the Gentry, and a known Cognizance to all ancient Houses, hath lost her Title through the unhappy and Cruel Disturbances of these Times, she is now