_The A-la-mode ways of dressing the Heads of any Beasts._
_To boil a Bullocks Cheek in the Italian way._
Break the bones and steep the head in fair water, shift it, and
scrape off the slime, let it lie thus in steep about twelve hours,
then boil in fair water with some _Bolonia_ sausage and a piece of
interlarded bacon; the cheeks and the other materials being very
tender boiled, dish it up and serve it with some flowers and greens
on it, and mustard in saucers.
_To stew Bullocks Cheeks._
Take the Cheeks being well soaked or steeped, spit and half roast
them, save the gravy, and put them into a pipkin with some
claret-wine, gravy, and some strong broth, slic't nutmeg, ginger,
pepper, salt and some minced onions fried; stew it the space of two
hours on a soft fire, and being finely stewed, serve it on carved
sippets.
_Otherways._
Take out the bones, balls of the eyes, and the ruff of the mouth,
steep it well in fair water and shift it often: being well cleans'd
from the blood and slime, take it out of the water, wipe it dry, and
season it with nutmeg, pepper, and salt, put them in an earthen pot
one upon another, and put to them a pint of claret wine, a few whole
cloves, a little fair water, and two three whole onions; close up
the pot and bake it, it will ask six hours bakeing; being tender
baked, serve it on toasts of fine manchet.
_Or thus._
Being baked or stewed, you may take out the bones and lay them close
together, pour the liquor to them, and being cold slice them into
slices, and serve them cold with mustard and sugar.
_To boil a Calves Head._
Take the head, skin, and all unflayed, scald it, and soak it in fair
water a whole night or twelve hours, then take out the brains and
boil them with some sage, parsley, or mint; being boil'd chop them
small together, butter them and serve them in a dish with fine
sippets about them, the head being finely cleansed, boil it in a
clean cloth and close it up together again in the cloth; being
boil'd, lay it one side by another with some fine slices of boil'd
bacon, and lay some fine picked parsley upon it, with some borage or
other flowers.
_To hash a Calves Head._
Take a calves head well steeped and cleansed from the blood and
slime, boil it tender, then take it up and let it be through cold,
cut it into dice-work, as also the brains in the same form, and some
think slices interlarded bacon being first boil'd put some
gooseberries to them, as also some gravy or juyce of lemon or
orange, and some beaten butter; stew all together, and being finely
stewed, dish it on carved sippets, and run it over with beaten
butter.
_Otherways._
The head being boil'd and cold, slice is in to thin slices, with
some onions and the brains in the same manner, then stew them in a
pipkin with some gravy or strong mutton, broth, with nutmeg, some
mushrooms, a little white wine and beaten butter; being well stewed
together dish them on fine sippets, and garnish the meat with slic't
lemon or barberries.
_To souce a Calves Head._
First scald it and bone it, then steep it in fair water the space of
six hour, dry it with a clean cloth, and season it with some salt
and bruised garlick (or none) then roul it up in a collar, bind it
close, and boil it in white wine, water, and salt; being boil'd keep
it in that souce drink, and serve it in the collar, or slice it, and
serve it with oyl, vinegar, and pepper. This dish is very rare, and
to a good judgment scarce discernable.
_To roast a Calves head._
Take a calves head, cleave it and take out the brains, skins, and
blood about it, then steep them and the head in fair warm water the
space of four or five hours, shift them three or four times and
cleanse the head; then boil the brains, & make a pudding with some
grated bread, brains, some beef-suet minced small, with some minced
veal & sage; season the pudding with some cloves, mace, salt,
ginger, sugar, five yolks of eggs, & saffron; fill the head with
this pudding, then close it up and bind it fast with some
packthread, spit it, and bind on the caul round the head with some
of the pudding round about it, rost it & save the gravy, blow off
the fat, and put to the gravy; for the sauce a little white-wine,
a slic't nutmeg & a piece of sweet butter, the juyce of an orange,
salt, and sugar. Then bread up the head with some grated bread;
beaten cinamon, minced lemon peel, and a little salt.
_To roast a Calves Head with Oysters._
Split the head as to boil, and take out the brains washing them very
well with the head, cut out the tongue, boil it a little, and blanch
it, let the brains be parbol'd as well as tongue, then mince the
brains and tongue, a little sage, oysters, beef-suet, very small;
being finely minced, mix them together with three or four yolks of
eggs, beaten ginger, pepper, nutmegs, grated bread, salt, and a
little sack, if the brains and eggs make it not moist enough. This
being done parboil the calves head a little in fair water, then take
it up and dry it well in a cloth filling the holes where the brains
and tongue lay with this farsing or pudding; bind it up close
together, and spit it, then stuff it with oysters being first
parboil'd in their own liquor, put them into a dish with minced
tyme, parsley, mace, nutmeg, and pepper beaten very small; mix all
these with a little vinegar, and the white of an egg, roul the
oysters in it, and make little holes in the head, stuff it as full
as you can, put the oysters but half way in, and scuer in them with
sprigs of tyme, roast it and set the dish under it to save the
gravy, wherein let there be oysters, sweet herbs minced, a little
white-wine and slic't nutmeg. When the head is roasted set the dish
wherein the sauce is on the coals to stew a little, then put in a
piece of butter, the juyce of an orange, and salt, beating it up
together: dish the head, and put the sauce to it, and serve it up
hot to the table.
_To bake a Calves Head in Pye or Pasty to eat hot or cold._
Take a calves head and cleave it, then cleanse it & boil it, and
being almost boil'd, take it up, & take it from the bones as whole
as you can, when it is cold stuff it with sweet herbs, yolks of raw
eggs, both finely minced with some lard or beef-suet, and raw veal;
season it with nutmeg, pepper, and salt, brake two or three raw eggs
into it; and work it together, and stuff the cheeks: the Pie being
made, season the head with the spices abovesaid, and first lay in
the bottom of the Pie some thin slices of veal, then lay on the
head, and put on it some more seasoning, and coat it well with the
spices, close it up with some butter, and bake it, being baked
liquor it with clarified butter, and fill it up.
If you bake the aforesaid Pie to eat hot, give it but half the
seasoning, and put some butter to it, with grapes, or gooseberries
or barberries; then close it up and bake it, being baked liquor it
with gravy and butter beat up thick together; with the juyce of two
oranges.
_To make a Calves-foot Pye, or Neats-foot Pie, or Florentine
in a dish of Puff-Paste; but the other Pye in short paste,
and the Dish of Puff._
Take two pair of calves feet, and boil them tender & blanch them,
being cold bone them & mince them very small, and season them with
pepper, nutmeg, cinamon, and ginger lightly, and a little salt, and
a pound of currans, a quarter of a pound of dates, slic't, a quarter
of a pound of fine sugar, with a little rose-water verjuyce, & stir
all together in a dish or tray, and lay a little butter in the
bottom of the Pie, & lay on half the meat in the Pie; then have the
marrow of three marrow-bones, and lay that on the meat in the Pie,
and the other half of the meat on the marrow, & stick some dates on
the top of the meat & close up the Pie, & bake it, & being half
bak't liquor it with butter, white-wine, or verjuyce, and ice it,
and set in the oven again till it be iced, and ice it with butter,
rose-water, and sugar.
Or you may bake them in halves with the bones in, and use for change
some grapes, gooseberries, or barberries, with currans or without,
and dates in halves, and large mace.
_To Stew a Calves-Head._
First boil it in fair water half an hour, then take it up and pluck
it pieces, then put it into a pipkin with great oysters and some of
the broth, which boil'd it, (if you have no stronger) a pint of
white-wine or claret, a quarter of a pound of interlarded bacon,
some blanched chesnuts, the yolks of three or four hard eggs cut
into halves, sweet herbs minced, and a little horseradish-root
scraped, stew all these an hour, then slice the brains (being
parboil'd) and strew a little ginger, salt, and flower, you may put
in some juyce of spinage, and fry them green with butter; then dish
the meat, and lay the fried brains, oysters, chesnuts, half yolks of
eggs, and sippet it, serve it up hot to the table.
_To hash a Calves Head._
Take a calves-head, boil it tender, and let it be through cold, then
take one half and broil or roast it, do it very white and fair, then
take the other half and slice it into thin slices, fry it with
clarified butter fine and white, then put it in a dish a stewing
with some sweet herbs, as rosemary, tyme, savory, salt, some
white-wine or claret, some good roast mutton gravy, a little pepper
and nutmeg; then take the tongue being ready boil'd, and a boil'd
piece of interlarded bacon, slice it into thin slices, and fry it in
a batter made of flower, eggs, nutmeg, cream, salt, and sweet herbs
chopped small, dip the tongue & bacon into the batter, then fry them
& keep them warm till dinner time, season the brains with nutmegs,
sweet herbs minced small, salt, and the yolks of three or four raw
eggs, mince all together, and fry them in spoonfuls, keep them warm,
then the stewed meat being ready dish it, and lay the broild side of
the head on the stewed side, then garnish the dish with the fried
meats, some slices of oranges, and run it over with beaten butter
and juyce of oranges.
_To boil A Calves Head._
Take a calves head being cleft and cleansed, and also the brains,
boil the head very white and fine, then boil the brains with some
sage and other sweet herbs, as tyme and sweet marjoram, chop and
boil them in a bag, being boil'd put them out and butter them with
butter, salt, and vinegar, serve them in a little dish by themselves
with fine thin sippits about them.
Then broil the head, or toast it against the fire, being first
salted and scotched with your knife, baste it with butter, being
finely broil'd, bread it with fine manchet and fine flour, brown it
a little and dish it on a sauce of gravy, minced capers; grated
nutmeg, and a little beaten butter.
_To bake Lamb._
Season Lamb (as you may see in page 209) with nutmegs, pepper, and
salt, as you do veal, (in page ___) or as you do chickens, in pag.
197, & 198. for hot or cold pies.
_To boil a Lambs Head in white broth._
Take a lambs head, cleave it, and take out the brains, then open the
pipes of the appurtenances, and wash and soak the meat very clean,
set it a boiling in fair water & when it boils scum it, & put in
some large mace, whole cinamon, slic't dates, some marrow, & salt, &
when the heads is boil'd, dish it up on fine carved sippets, & trim
the dish with scraping sugar: then strain six or seven yolks of eggs
with sack or white-wine, and a ladleful of cream, put it into the
broth, and give it a warm on the fire, stir it, and broth the head,
then lay on the head some slic't lemon, gooseberries, grapes, dates,
and large mace.
_To stew a Lambs Head._
Take a lambs head, cleave it, and take out the brains, wash and pick
the head from the slime and filth, and steep it in fair water, shift
it twice in an hour, as also the appurtenances, then set it a
boiling on the fire with some strong broth, and when it boils scum
it, and put in a large mace or two, some capers, quarters of pears,
a little white wine, some gravy, marrow, and some marigold flowers;
being finely stewed, serve it on carved sippets, and broth it, lay
on it slic't lemon, and scalded gooseberries or barberries.
_To boil a Lambs Head otherways._
Make a forcing or pudding of the brains, being boil'd and cold cut
them into bits, then mince a little veal or lamb with some
beef-suet, and put to it some grated bread, nutmeg, pepper, salt,
some sweet herbs minced, small, and three or four raw eggs, work all
together, and fill the head with this pudding, being cleft, steeped,
and after dried in a clean cloth, stew it in a stewing-pan or
between two dishes with some strong broth; then take the remainder
of this forcing or pudding, and make it into balls, put them a
boiling with the head, and add some white-wine, a whole onion, and
some slic't pipins or pears, or square bits like dice, some bits of
artichocks, sage-leaves, large mace, and lettice boil'd and
quartered, and put in beaten butter; being finely stewed, dish it up
on sippets, and put the balls and the other materials on it, broth
it and run it over with beaten butter and lemon.
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