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English Housewifry: Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery

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English Housewifry: Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery

by Moxon, Elizabeth · Page 77 of 192 · 67,091 words

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addition to your sauce, if the fish be sweet. 222. _To dress_ COD'S ZOONS. Lie them in water all night, and then boil them, if they be salt shift them once in the boiling, when they are tender cut them in long pieces, dress them up with eggs as you do salt fish, take one or two of them and cut into square pieces, dip them in egg and fry them to lay round your dish. It is proper to lie about any other dish. 223. _To make_ SOLOMON GUNDY _to eat in Lent_ Take five or six white herrings, lay them in water all night, boil them as soft as you would do for eating, and shift them in the boiling to take out the saltness; when they are boiled take the fish from the bone, and mind you don't break the bone in pieces, leaving on the head and tail; take the white part of the herrings, a quarter of a pound of anchovies, a large apple, a little onion shred fine, or shalot, and a little lemon-peel, shred them all together, and lie them over the bones on both sides, in the shape of a herring; then take off the peel of a lemon very very thin, and cut it in long bits, just as it will reach over the herrings; you must lie this peel over every herring pretty thick. Garnish your dish with a few pickled oysters, capers, and mushrooms, if you have any; so serve them up. 224. SOLOMAN GUNDY _another Way_. Take the white part of a turkey, or other fowl, if you have neither, take a little white veal and mince it pretty small; take a little hang beef or tongues, scrape them very fine, a few shred capers, and the yolks of four or five eggs shred small; take a delf dish and lie a delf plate in the dish with the wrong side up, so lie on your meat and other ingredients, all single in quarters, one to answer another; set in the middle a large lemon or mango, so

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