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When you want very ftrong gravy, take a fiice of bacon, 
lay it in a ftew-pan ; take a pound of beef, cut it thin, lay it 
on the bacon, Dice a good piece of carrot in, an onion fliced, 
a good cruft of bread, a few fweet-herbs, a little mace, cloves, 
nutmeg, and whole pepper, an anchovy; cover it, and fet it 
on a flow fire five or fix minutes, and pour in a quart of the 
above beef-gravy; cover it clofe, and let it boil foftly till half 
is wafted. This will be a rich, high brown fauce for fifti or 
fpwl, or ragoo. 
Gravy for while fauce . 
TAKE a pound of any part of the veal, cut it into final} 
pieces, boil it in a quart of water, with an onion, a blade of 
mace, two cloves, and a few whole pepper-corns. Boil it til} 
it is as rich as you would have it. 
Gravy for turkey , fowl^ or r-agao . 
TAKE a pound of lean beef, cut and hack it well, then flour 
ft well, put a piece of butter as big as a hen’s egg in a ftew- 
pan 3 when it is melted, put in your beef, fry it on all fides a 
Jittle brown, then pour in three pints of boiling water, and a 
bundle of fweet-herbs, two or three blades of mace, three or 
four cloves, twelve whole pepper-corns, a little bit of carrot, 
a little piece of cruft of bread coafted brown ; cover it clofe, 
and let it boil till there is about a pint or Id's 3 then feafon it 
with fait, and drain it off. 
Gravy for a fowl , when yen have no meat nor gravy 
ready . 
TAKE the neck, liver, and gizzard, boil them in half a pint 
of water, with a little piece of bread toafted brown, a little pep¬ 
per and fait, and a little hit of thyme. Let them boil till there 
js about a quarter of a pint, then pour in half a glafs of reft 
wine, boil it and ftrain it, then bruife the liver well in, and 
drain it again 3 thicken it with a little piece of butter rolled 
in flour, and it will be very good. 
An ox’s kidney makes good gravy, cut all to pieces, and 
boijed with fpice, &c. as in the foregoing receipts. 
You have a receipt in the beginning of the book, in the pre¬ 
face for gravies. 
