A DUCK STEWED WITH GREEN PEASE.

HALF roast a duck. Put it into a stew-pan, with a pint of good gravy, a little mint, and three or four leaves of sage cut small. Cover up close, and let the duck continue in the pan for half an hour. Put a pint of green pease, boiled as for eating, into the pan, after having thickened the gravy. Dish up the duck, and pour the gravy and pease over it.

OBS.

Ducks, dressed in this manner, are full as mild as when roasted; and when sent up with seasoning and gravy, this dish may be eaten in defiance of gout or scurvy.

STEWED PEASE WITH CALF'S FOOT.

STEW pease in the usual manner in gravy, to which put a small piece of sugar. Having some calf's feet ready boiled, put them in the centre of he dish, and pour the pease over them.

OBS.

THIS is a very wholesome dish. It may be varied by substituting calf's head in the room of A few = calf's feet, or any other tender meat. stewed oysters would not make a bad dish, with stewed pease poured over them; but Ignotus gives this only as a speculation, on the value of which Archæus must decide.

GREEN PEASE STEWED WITH LETTUCE. BOIL the pease in hard water with a little salt till nearly enough, after which let them be drained in a sieve. Cut the lettuces and fry them in butter; then put them and the pease into a stew-, pan with some good gravy, pepper, and salt. Thicken with flour and butter, and add a little shred mint. Send up hot.

OBS.

THIS is a very pleasant savoury dish, and as far as a few spoonfuls go, is not capable of doing any harm.

TAKE the caul of a leg of veal, and lay it in a dish as deep as a punch bowl. Then take the lean part of a leg of mutton, chop it very small, and add to it a third of its weight of suet and some beef marrow, the crumbs of a penny loaf, the yolks of four eggs, two anchovies chopped small, half a pint of red wine, and the rind of half a lemon grated. Mix all like sausage meat, and lay it in the caul placed in the dish. Close all up with the caul that hangs over, and send the dish. to bake in a quick oven. When sufficiently done, turn it upon a dish, and pour over it some brown gravy. Send up with venison sauce in a boat.

OBS.

Ir is a singular circumstance, that persons of a gouty habit should be most fond of high-seasoned dishes, such as the above. To deprive

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rous a clafs of men of a gratification that Nature so loudly calls for, would be deemed an act of cruelty; and as Ignotus himself belongs to that clafs of men, he ventures to make the following proposal for the good of all: Let the Podagric

enjoy his savoury dishes, on condon that every fourth day he submits to eat fish lain meat, and a meagre soup. To this mode of living, Archæus can have no reasonable objection, especially as the family physician will be disposed to interpose, now and then, some gentle physic. Upon this head, Celsus speaks very sensibly, where he says, "That a healthy man under his own government, ought not to tie himself up to strict rules, nor to abstain from any sort of food: That he ought sometimes to feast and sometimes to fast."When applied to eating, nothing is more true than that, Bonarum rerum consuetudo pessima est.

FISH SAUCE FOR KEEPING.

TAKE twenty-four spoonfuls of white wine, twelve spoonfuls of white wine vinegar, a few spoonfuls of catchup, a bunch of sweet herbs, some onions sliced, a few artichoke bottoms, and a small quantity of pepper. Let these ingredients simmer together about a quarter of an hour, then strain through a fine sieve, and bottle for use. To half a pound of butter rolled in flour, put six

spoonfuls of the above liquor, and when put into the sauce-pan, add two spoonfuls of cream. Keep shaking the pan one way till the whole forms an uniform mixture.

OBS.

THIS is a very mild sauce; and as the quantities of some of the ingredients are but vaguely stated, the housekeeper is here desired to supply that deficiency; and indeed, the same omifsion will apply to many other receipts contained in this small volume, all of which every housekeeper, if she is upon good terms with Archæus, will be able to supply.

A CHEAP FISH SAUCE.

TO half a pound of melted butter, put the yolks of two eggs well beat, and a spoonful of elder vinegar. Shake one way till the whole be well incorporated.

OBS.

THIS Sauce was communicated to Ignotus by a Burgomaster of Amsterdam on his death bed.