The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living
January 27th : BOILED FOWL AND OYSTER SAUCE
A large bladder, which has been properly seasoned with the liquor of boiled meat, mutton broth, or beef tea, and thus rendered applicable for culinary purposes, may be advantageously used in dressing the above.
Having your fowl properly trussed, let it be well floured, rub the quarter of a nutmeg, grated, in a piece of butter, the size of a walnut ; put this, a pinch of powdered mace, and your fowl into the bladder, then pour in a dozen oysters with their liquor ; leave the body of the bladder loose, but tie the neck of it very tight, and you may then boil in a saucepan containing any other meat; about five-and-twenty minutes is quite time enough ;
Have a deep dish ready, and you will find sufficient and excellent sauce made to your hand, when you take the fowl out of its case.