Domestic Economy, and Cookery: For Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; Preparations of Broths and Milks for Consumption; Receipts for Sea-faring Men, Travellers, and Children's Food : Together with Estimates and Comparisons of Dinners and Dishes ... |
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... nice texture of china , which is white , and has large patches of flowers ; but however beautiful in the hand , the economist will avoid it as well as French white , and all pale china , which are very trying , requiring , as the finest ...
... nice texture of china , which is white , and has large patches of flowers ; but however beautiful in the hand , the economist will avoid it as well as French white , and all pale china , which are very trying , requiring , as the finest ...
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... re- quires only gravy to be served from the dish with it . The servant may offer mint sauce , salad , peas , French beans , or any nice vegetable with it . Haunch of Venison Is cut round upon the rise of Ꭰ AND COOKERY . 49.
... re- quires only gravy to be served from the dish with it . The servant may offer mint sauce , salad , peas , French beans , or any nice vegetable with it . Haunch of Venison Is cut round upon the rise of Ꭰ AND COOKERY . 49.
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... nice way of carving that size of bird . Fowl . When a carver is equal to cut up a fowl elegantly and expeditiously , he has no more to fear in that department of carving . If a fowl is large , two slices may be cut from each side of the ...
... nice way of carving that size of bird . Fowl . When a carver is equal to cut up a fowl elegantly and expeditiously , he has no more to fear in that department of carving . If a fowl is large , two slices may be cut from each side of the ...
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... nice experienced well - bred carver , who has been accustomed to it from childhood , may well be astonished at such instructions being necessary . But indeed many more might be added with propriety , were there sufficient room for ...
... nice experienced well - bred carver , who has been accustomed to it from childhood , may well be astonished at such instructions being necessary . But indeed many more might be added with propriety , were there sufficient room for ...
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... and are much simpler than many served at our tradesmen's tables . It is not the quantity , but the nice cooking , that is requisite to people of real taste . TWENTY TO SIX - AND - TWENTY COVERS . First 78 DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
... and are much simpler than many served at our tradesmen's tables . It is not the quantity , but the nice cooking , that is requisite to people of real taste . TWENTY TO SIX - AND - TWENTY COVERS . First 78 DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
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Page 12 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Page 99 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 21 - Have therefore ever more care that thou be beloved of thy wife, rather than thyself besotted on her ; and thou shalt judge of her love by these two observations: first, if thou perceive she have a care of thy estate, and exercise herself therein ; the other, if she study to please thee, and be sweet unto thee in conversation, without thy instruction; for love needs no teaching nor precept.
Page 99 - Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh ; for the drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Page 543 - Prepared calves-feet, apples, currants, raisins, and sugar, of each a pound ; beef suet, two pounds; with a rasped nutmeg, a quarter of an ounce of cloves, a quarter of an ounce of cinnamon, lemon zest, and a little salt.
Page 1 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.
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