the outside skin clean off, slice it thin, and a middling onion peeled and sliced thin, some beaten pepper and salt, cover it close, and let it stew very softly for about two hours after it boils; be sure to let it simmer as softly as you can: eat it without any other sauce; it is an excellent dish.
To pickle a buttock of beef.
TAKE a large fine buttock of well fed ox beef, and with a long narrow knife make holes through, through which you must run square pieces of at bacon, about as thick as your finger, in about a dozen or fourteen places, and have ready a great deal of parsley clean washed and picked fine, but not chopped; and in every hole where the bacon is, stuff in as much of the parsley as you can get in, with a long round stick; then take half an ounce of mace, cloves and nutmegs, an equal quantity of each, dried before the fire, and pounded fine, and a quarter of an ounce of black pepper beat fine, a quarter of juniper berries beat fine, a quarter of a pound of loaf-sugar beat fine, two large spoonfuls of fine salt, two tea-spoonfuls of India pepper, mix all together, and rub the beef well with it; let it lie in this pickle two days, turning and rubbing it twice a day; then throw into the pan two bay-leaves; six shalots peeled and cut fine, and pour a pint of fine white vinegar over it, keeping it turned and rubb'd as above; let it lie thus another day; then pour over in a bottle of red port or Madeira wine; let it lie thus in this pickle a week or ten days; and wehn you dress it, stew it in the pickle it lies in, with another bottle of red wine; it is an excellent dish, and eats best cold, and will keep a month or six weeks good.
To make a fine bitter.
TAKE an ounce of the finest Jesuit powder, half a quarter of an ounce of snake-root powder, half a quarter of an ounce of salt of wormwood, half a quarter of saffron, half a quarter of cochineal; put it into a quart of the best brandy, and let it stand twenty-four hours; every now and then shaking the bottle.
An approved method practised by Mrs. Dukely, the queen's tyre-woman, to preserve hair, and make it grow thick.
TAKE one quart of white wine, put in one handful of rosemary flowers, half a pound of honey, distil them together; then
