Shields Tavern

AFTER washing your lettuce, be sure it is dry and chopped, arrange it on a platter with pippins sliced fine, good cheese as you choose, pickled vegetables, candied nuts...dress with the juice of lemons and good oil mixed up well or dressing four sour'd cream and sweet herb will also be fine (The English Art of Cookery, Richard Briggs, 1788)

The best beef is from the leg, pounded thin with a rolling pin, stuff it with cubes of a dry penny loaf to which is added vegetables chopped fine...brown them and put in your baking dish with gravy...place in a slow oven... (The Art Of Cooking made Plain and Easy, Hannah Glasse 1766)

Clean your chicken well, being sure it is clear of feathers, marinated with salt and vinegar or lemon juice, rolling in fine flour and fry quickly in lard or clear oil (Dictionarium Domesticum, Nathan Bailey, 1736)

AFTER they are boiled...mash then in a mortar, or a clean board with a broad knife, and put them into a pan with milk and butter until it is melt... (The English Art of Cookery, Richard Briggs, 1789)

Take one pint of thick cream and set it on the fire, keep stirring and make it sweet with double re-fined sugar, add in strawberry jam and the peel of a lemon, when it is cold bring it to froth... Is very good served with warm doughnuts (The Complete Confectioner, Hannah Glasse, 1765)