To boyle Chickins in White-broth
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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To boyle Chickins in White-broth. TRusse and parboyle them very white: then put them with sweet Hearbes into a Pipkin, with Mace, pieces of Sinamon, chop a little Parsley but course, and straine the yolkes of foure or fiue Egges, with a little Uergis, which must bee put in when they are ready to be taken from the fire. Garnish your Dish.

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To boyle Chickens in white broth. TRusse your Chickens fit to boyle, as was before shewed in the Rabbets, cut two or three Dates in small pieces: take a piece of whole Mace: thicken your broath with Almonds: Season it with Uergis, and a little Pepper. Garnish your Dish sides with sweet Sucket & Sugar, after you haue seasoned your broth. Jn like sort you may boyle a Capon, but then you must put Marrow into your white broth. Jf you dislike Mutton broth then boyle it by it selfe in fayre water till it turne as white as a Curd. But the French men follow the other way, and it is the better. []

To boyle Chickens in white broth. TRusse your Chickens fit to boyle, as was before shewed in the Rabbets, cut two or three Dates in small pieces: take a piece of whole Mace: thicken your broath with Almonds: Season it with Uergis, and a little Pepper. Garnish your Dish sides with sweet Sucket & Sugar, after you haue seasoned your broth. Jn like sort you may boyle a Capon, but then you must put Marrow into your white broth. Jf you dislike Mutton broth then boyle it by it selfe in fayre water till it turne as white as a Curd. But the French men follow the other way, and it is the better. []

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Materials
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chicken
broth
herbs
mace
cinnamon
parsley
yolks
eggs

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