[Sca-cooks] Question

[Olwen the Odd]

>Here's another chicken with dates or prunes--
>and citrus fruits. No apples.
>
>To boile a Capon with Orenges and Lemmons.
>Take Orenges or Lemmons pilled, and cutte them the long way, and if you can
>keepe
>your cloves whole and put them into your best broth of Mutton or Capon with
>prunes or
>currants and three or fowre dates, and when these have beene well sodden
>put whole
>pepper great mace, a good piece of suger, some rose water, and eyther white
>or claret
>Wine, and let al these seeth together a while, & so serve it upon soppes
>with your
>capon.
>Thomas Dawson. The Good Huswifes Jewell. 1596. p. 5r.
>
> > Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

Man this sounds good.  And here I convieniently have a chicken thawing in
the fridge and all the rest of the ingredients in the cupboard.
Olwen, going to dig out the crockpot

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