This section is from the book "The Professed Cook: Or, The Modern Art Of Cookery, Pastry, And Confectionary", by B. Clermont. Also available from Amazon: The professed cook.
This Season comprehends September, October, November, and gives us the greatest Varieties of any for good and great Entertainments, in regard to Venison and Game of all Sorts. In Fish, September produces Cod, small Whitings, Smelts, Haddocks, Soals, Brills, Scate, Maids, Flounders, Eels, Crabs, Prawns, Herrings, Craw-fish, John-doreys, and Turbots at Times, Carps, Tench, Perch and Pikes. October continues much the same, with very good Craw-fish, Gudgeons, Carps, Eels, Lobsters, and Salmon the latter End of this Month; also Brawn coming into Season, and fold by the Fishmon-gers. November, Salmon plenty, Crimp-Cod, and Whitings, Haddocks, Smelts, Soals, Brills, Scate, and Flounders, Plaice, with the same Productions as the last, only Lobsters often deficient in this Month; pickled Sturgeon, Oysters, Mussels, and Cockles at Times. Of butcher's Meat, Pigs, and Pork in full Season. In Poultry, the Beginning of this Season, tame Ducks, large Fowls, middling ditto, Quails, Partridges, Land and Water Reals, Hares, Rabbits, Pigeons. October, Geefe in Perfection, Giblets, Pheafanrs, Turkies, Woodcocks; the latter End, wild Ducks, Teals, Easterlings, Widgeons, Plovers coming into Season, Snipes, Larks, Wood Pigeons, tame Rabbits, and Dunbirds. In Fruits, etc. the Beginning continues much as the last Season, with late Duke Cherries, Peaches, Nectarines, Figs plenty, Sweet-water Grapes, red and white Currants, green Gage Plumbs, and St. Catherine ditto, with other Sorts of inferior Quality, Mulberries, Walnuts, Filberts, Orlean Plumbs, red Currants, Morella Cherries for Tarts and Preserves; Field Mushrooms, best for pickling; Garden Greens of all Sorts pretty plentiful, fresh Cardoons and Potatoes; several Sorts of Apples for Tarts and other Kitchen Uses. October continues much the same, with Nectarines, latter Catherine Peaches, good for raw eating, stewing, baking, etc. and the Newington Nectarines, Grapes of all Sorts, Bergamotte Pears, Burée and Cressant ditto, Golden Pippins coming in good, Medlers, Mulberries, Walnuts, Imperatrice Plumbs, Chesnuts, English Truffles coming in, and continue for about four Months; the Kitchen is still well supplied with common Roots and Greens, red Beet Roots, good for Sallad, with Spanish Onions, Cellery in Perfection for all Uses; Cardoons, Cloreri, Brocoli, Endives, Lettuces, young Spinach. November, Grapes, Burée Pears, Cressant, and St. Germain, Colmar and Bon-chretien Pears, Golden Pippins, Nonpareil Apples, and all other Sorts for Kitchen Use; Love Apples, good to mix with fumée Sauce; and much the same Roots and Greens as the Month before.
 
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