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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... vegetables . * The physician of one of the embassies to China told me , that he had seen children ( almost infants ) lying upon the sides of tanks , gathering every thing that had life , and putting what they had collected into little ...
... vegetables . * The physician of one of the embassies to China told me , that he had seen children ( almost infants ) lying upon the sides of tanks , gathering every thing that had life , and putting what they had collected into little ...
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... vegetables , and sending the servant for them , or accord- ing to the management of the table , sending the vegeta- bles afterwards to the guest . Sirloin To be sent to table with the outside upwards , which is first cut down along the ...
... vegetables , and sending the servant for them , or accord- ing to the management of the table , sending the vegeta- bles afterwards to the guest . Sirloin To be sent to table with the outside upwards , which is first cut down along the ...
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... vegetable balls put into the rings of onions and carrots , also rings mixed , & c . All vegetables for salads ought to be cooked in stock butter or cream . If there is any cold fricasée or butter sauces , serve them in sauce - boats ...
... vegetable balls put into the rings of onions and carrots , also rings mixed , & c . All vegetables for salads ought to be cooked in stock butter or cream . If there is any cold fricasée or butter sauces , serve them in sauce - boats ...
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... Vegetables , & c . ....................... £ . s . d . 1 8 0 ... 2 8 0 O 18 0 O 12 0 12 0 0 7 0 O 15 0 8 1 1 0 0 12 £ 7 13 0 Turkey Six Mutton Tongues Fillet of Veal Beef Rice Milk .... Soup Plum Pudding .. Eighteen Custards .. Eighteen ...
... Vegetables , & c . ....................... £ . s . d . 1 8 0 ... 2 8 0 O 18 0 O 12 0 12 0 0 7 0 O 15 0 8 1 1 0 0 12 £ 7 13 0 Turkey Six Mutton Tongues Fillet of Veal Beef Rice Milk .... Soup Plum Pudding .. Eighteen Custards .. Eighteen ...
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... vegetables , second course dishes , and particularly in desserts , are still greater . Rice is one of the best foods for children , servants will not eat it , because it is rarely well cooked , and they will eat nothing but what is fat ...
... vegetables , second course dishes , and particularly in desserts , are still greater . Rice is one of the best foods for children , servants will not eat it , because it is rarely well cooked , and they will eat nothing but what is fat ...
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allspice almonds anchovies apples bacon bain-marie bake beat beef blanch boil bones braise bread brown butter cakes carrots chitterlings clove clove of garlic cold colour cook cover cream crums currants dish dressed eggs excellent farce fillets fire fish flavour flour fowl fresh fricassée fried fruit garlic garnish glaze gravy half a pound jelly juice lard lemon-juice let it cool liver mace marinade meat milk minced mould mushrooms mutton nice nutmeg onions ounces oven oysters parings parsley paste pepper pickle pieces pillau pint port wine potatoes powder Prepare pudding puff paste quantity quart ragoût rasped rice roasted salads salt sauce scallions season serve shalot sift sugar simmer skin slices soup spices spoonful stew stewpan strain strew sugar sweet herbs sweetbreads thicken truffle turnips veal vegetables venison vinegar wine yolks
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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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