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The Art of Cookery 9 
To make heef drinks which is ordered for weak people . 
TAKE a pound of lean beef; then take off all the fat and 
fkin, cut it into pieces, put it into a gallon of water, with the 
under-cruft of a penny-loaf, and a very little fait. Let it boil 
till it conies to two quarts; then ftrain it off, and it is a very 
hearty drink. 
To make pork broth. 
TAKE two pounds of young pork * then take off the fkin 
and fat, boil it in a gallon of water, with a turnip and a very 
little corn of fait. Let it boil till it comes to two quarts, then 
ftrain it off, and let it ftand till cold. Takeoff the fat, then 
leave the fettling at the bottom of the pan, and drink half a pint 
in the morning fafting, an hour before breakfaft, and at noon, 
if the ftomach will bear it. 
To boil a chicken . 
LET your fauce-pan be very clean and nice; when the w T ater 
boils put in your chicken, which muft be very nicely picked 
and clean, and laid in cold water a quarter of an hour before it 
is boiled ; then take it out of the water boiling, and lay it in a 
pewter-difh. Save all the liquor that runs from it in the difh, 
cut up your chicken all in joints in the difh; then bruife the 
liver very fine, add a little boiled pariley chopped very fine, a 
very little fait, and a very little grated nutmeg : mix it all well 
together with two fpoonfuls of the liquor of the Fowl, and pour 
it into the difh with the reft of the liquor in the difh. If there 
3 s not liquor enough, take two or three fpoonfuls of the liquor 
it was boiled in, clap another difh over it; then fet it oyer a 
chaffing-difh of hot coals five or fix minutes, and carry it to 
table hot with the cover on. This is better than butter, and 
lighter for the ftomach, though fome chufe it only with the li¬ 
quor, and no parfley, nor liver, or any thing elfe, and that is 
according to different palates. If it is for a very weak perfon, 
take off the fkin of the chicken before you fet it on the chaffing- 
difh. If you roaft it, make nothing but bread-fauce, and that 
is lighter than any fauce you can make for a weak ftomach. 
Thus you may drefs a rabbit, only bruife but a little piece of 
the liver. 
