Venison

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Instructions (3)
  1. Try the haunches or shoulders under the bones that come out, with your finger or knife, and as the scent is sweet or rank, it is new or stale; and the like of the sides; the most fleshy parts :
  2. If tainted, they will look greenish in some places, or more than ordinary black.
  3. Look on the hoofs, and if the clifts are very wide and tough, it is old; if close and smooth, it is rusty.
Original Text
Venison. TRY the haunches or ſhoulders under the bones that come out, with your finger or knife, and as the ſcent is ſweet or rank, it is new or stale; and the like of the sides; the moſt fleſhy parts : If tainted, they will look greeniſh in ſome places, or more than ordinary black. Look on the hoofs, and if the clifts are very wide and tough, it is old; if cloſe and ſmooth, it is ruſty.
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