Crumpets
Two pounds of flour, one gill of yeast, milk and water enough to make a still batter, set it to rise five or six hours, bake it in muffin rings, on a griddle.
Walnut Catsup
Made with green walnuts, salt, vinegar, mace, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, pepper, horseradish, chalots and port wine. Put green walnuts in salt and vinegar to pickle, then cook with the rest of the ingredients, bottle and cork. Allow to sit six months before using.
Giblet soup
Take a scrag of veal, one dozen giblets, a little mace, pepper, two onions, two carrots, salt; put them into a pot with three quarts of water, and boil it three hours, strain the soup, cut up the gizzard and braid up the liver, put them into the soup, mix two spoonfuls of flour with a quarter pound of butter, stir this into the soup with a cup of red wine, and let it boil up once.
Broiled Salmon
It may be either cut in slices, as fried salmon, or split to the tail, broil it very quick, and when it is dished, rub some butter over it.
Calf's Head and Pluck
Soak a calf's head in cold water two hours, wash it clean, wipe it dry, take out the brains, and soak until wanted to cook. Put the head and heart into six quarts of cold water, to boil about three hours, tie the brains in a small cloth, and put in with the head, to boil one hour. Braid together quarter pound of butter and two table-spoonfuls of flour, put it into a saucepan with a pint of the liquor the head was boiled in, a little white pepper, salt, a very little mace, the juice of a lemon, and some chopped parsley. Slip the bones out of the head, then take half the head and the tongue, and put them into cold water to blanch half an hour, skin the tongue, cut up the head in small pieces an inch square, put it into the gravy and stew fifteen minutes, and put it to simmer. Cut half the brains in pieces, add it to the head, and give it one boil. Set the tongue up in the middle of the dish, turn the contents of the saucepan over it.
Spinage
Pick it clean, let it lie in cold water an hour, wash it out, and boil it an hour and a half, thenput it in a cullender to drain, drop four eggs in boiling water, dish the spinage, and take the eggs out carefully so as not to break them, lay them on the top of the spinage.
A Dinner for a Dyspeptic
A fresh cods head well cleaned, put it into a saucepan with a pint of water, a little salt, and let it simmer gently two hours, dredge in a very little flour, a small piece of butter, a little more water if necessary, and let it simmer another hour. This is very nutricious and very easy of digestion.
To Make Soft Soap
Take seventeen pounds of potash to twenty of grease, lay the potash at the bottom of the barrel. Boil the grease, and pour it on, put in two pailfuls of scalding water, and stir it all together. Fill up the barrel the next morning with cold water, stir it from time to time, and in three days it will be fit for use.
