gooseberries; mix with it a little
verjuyce, currans, sugar, and a little saffron in powder.

_Forms of minced Pyes._

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_To make an extraordinary Pie, or a Bride Pye
of several Compounds, being several distinct Pies
on one bottom._

Provide cock-stones and combs, or lamb-stones, and sweet-breads of
veal, a little set in hot water and cut to pieces; also two or three
ox-pallats blanch't and slic't, a pint of oysters, slic't dates,
a handful of pine kernels, a little quantity of broom buds, pickled,
some fine interlarded bacon slic't; nine or ten chesnuts rosted and
blancht season them with salt, nutmeg, and some large mace, and
close it up with some butter. For the caudle, beat up some butter,
with three yolks of eggs, some white or claret wine, the juyce of a
lemon or two; cut up the lid, and pour on the lear, shaking it well
together; then lay on the meat, slic't lemon, and pickled
barberries, and cover it again, let these ingredients be put in the
moddle or scollops of the Pye.

Several other Pies belong to the first form, but you must be sure to
make the three fashions proportionably answering one the other; you
may set them on one bottom of paste, which will be more convenient;
or if you set them several you may bake the middle one full of
flour, it being bak't and cold, take out the flour in the bottom, &
put in live birds, or a snake, which will seem strange to the
beholders, which cut up the pie at the Table. This is only for a
Wedding to pass away the time.

Now for the other pies you may fill them with several ingredients,
as in one you may put oysters, being parboild and bearded, season
them with large mace, pepper, some beaten ginger, and salt, season
them lightly and fill the Pie, then lay on marrow & some good
butter, close it up and bake it. Then make a lear for it with white
wine, the oyster liquor, three or four oysters bruised in pieces to
make it stronger, but take out the pieces, and an onion, or rub the
bottom of the dish with a clove of garlick; it being boil'd, put in
a piece of butter, with a lemon, sweet herbs will be good boil'd in
it, bound up fast together, cut up the lid, or make a hole to let
the lear in, _&c._

Another you may make of prawns and cockles, being seasoned as the
first, but no marrow: a few pickled mushrooms, (if you have them) it
being baked, beat up a piece of butter, a little vinegar, a slic't
nutmeg, and the juyce of two or thre