Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Plain Cookery

12 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Oysters

pick cut the eyes, and lay them in salt and water | cracker, and with the back of a spoon pat the all night, then wash and put them on to…

Soups (Take an ox-cheek pecks)

Take an ox-cheek, 2 pecks of potatoes, 1 of a peck of onions, of a pound of salt, and 12 ounces of pepper - to be boiled in 90 pints of…

Plain Cookery (Take pounds of the scrag-end)

Take 3 pounds of the scrag-end of a neck of very fresh mutton, cut it into several pieces, wash them in cold water, and put them into a…

Another (Chop anchovies having first)

Chop 24 anchovies, having first boned them; put to them 10 shallots cut small, and a handful of scraped horse-radish, of an ounce of mace…

Potatoes (Two of French vinegar three)

two of French vinegar, three of salad oil, a teaspoonful of mixed mustard, some pepper and salt, and serve. A Dish of Macaroni.

General Instructions

The vegetable kingdom affords no food more wholesome, more easily prepared, or less expensive than the potato; yet, although this most…

Another method

Take a peck of flour, and 6 pounds of butter, boiled in a gallon of water, then skim it off into the flour, with as little of the liquor as…

Cakes and Buns,

Take 1 pound of dough made for white bread, roll it out, and put bits of butter upon the same as for puff-paste, till 1 pound of the same…

To Make Punch

For a gallon of punch take six fresh Sicily lemons; rub the outsides of them well over with lumps of double-refined loaf-sugar, until they…

To Make Coffee

The best coffee is imported from Mocha. It is said to owe much of its superior quality to being

Coffee

kept long. Attention to the following circum- | well to take it for breakfast. It is of a rather stances is likewise necessary. 1. The…

Another Method (Pour a pint of boiling water)

Pour a pint of boiling water on an ounce of coffee; let it boil five or six minutes, then pour out a cupful two or three times, and return…

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