Volume 1

The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: and those the best and the most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe [of T. Sandford and E. Gent] sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water.

Date:
1753
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Credit: The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: and those the best and the most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe [of T. Sandford and E. Gent] sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 OE EE Lady’s Companion. Oe A ER Of Gravies, Soops, BRoTHs, PoTTAGES, and CuLLISES. To make a ftrong Broth for Soops and Sauces. ( RD AKE aleg of Béef, or a large Quantity P of any other Part, and fet it over the Fire in four Gallons of Water ; fkim it clean. Seafon it with Salt, whole Pepper, both Black and Famaica, fix or eight Onions, %& fome whole Cloves and Mace, a good Bun- dle of.’Thyme and Parfley. Boil it four Hours, tll it has boiled half away ; then itrain it off, and keep it for Ufe. To make a Brown Gravy fer Soops and Sauces. | AK E three or four Pounds of coarfe lean Beef, an} A put it into a Frying-pan, with fome fat Bits of Bacon at the Bottom, and cut five or fix Onions in Slices; cut a Carrot in Pieces, which, with fome Crugs of brown Bread, and a Bundle of Thyme, cover up clofe, and put all over a - gentle Fire, and let it fry very brown on both Sides, but not burn; then put into it two or three Quarts of the ftrong “Broth, mentioned in the Receipt above. Seafon it with Pepper, and let it ftew an Hour, and then ftrain it through