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with warm milk and water sufficient to make into dough, which must be allowed two hours to rise, before being formed into a loaf. Put the loaf into a tin to preserve its shape, and when placed in the oven, take care that it be not overbrowned.

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THE lovers of toast and butter will be much pleased with this kind of bread. The potatoe is not here added with a view to economy, but to increase the lightness of the bread, in which state it will imbibe the butter with more freedom.

A TAME DUCK STEWED WITH GREEN PEASE. AFTER putting some sage and onion into the body of the duck, half roast it, and put it into a stew-pan with a pint of gravy, a little mint, and a few leaves of sage, chopped small. Cover up close, and after stewing about half an hour, put in a pint of green pease lightly boiled, and a few grains of salt. Thicken the gravy with butter and flour in the usual manner. When sufficiently

stewed, dish up the duck, with the gravy and pease poured over it.

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THOUGH this is a savoury dish, it cannot be considered as an inflammatory one.

TO STEW A HARE.

CUT up the hare as for eating, and put it into a large sauce-pan, with three pints of beef gravy, a pint of red wine, an onion stuck with cloves, a bit of horse-radish, two blades of mace, one anchovy, a spoonful of walnut catchup, one of browning, half a lemon, Cayenne pepper and salt to the taste. Cover up very close that the steam may not escape, and stew over a gentle fire for the space of two hours. When done enough, put the meat into a soup dish, and thicken the gravy with a lump of butter rolled in flour. Give a gentle boil, and pour the gravy over the hare..

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THIS is a very savoury dish, and is liable to the objections made to high-seasoned dishes in gouty habits.

TO STEW PArtridges.

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AFTER trussing the Partridges, stuff their craws with forced meat, and lard them down the sides; then roll a lump of butter in pepper, salt, and beaten mace, and put it into the bodies. Sew up the vents, and after dredging them, fry them to a light brown; then put them into a stew-paul, with a quart of gravy, two spoonfuls of Madeira, or white wine, a spoonful of mushroom catchup, two tea-spoonfuls of lemon pickle, an anchovy, a quarter of a lemon sliced, and a sprig of sweet marjoram. Cover up close, and stew for about half an hour; after thickening the gravy, if necessary, pour it over the partridges, and serve them up with boiled artichoke bottoms, cut in quarters, and placed round the dish.

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THIS is a savoury dish; and though Archæus is an enemy to high-seasoned dishes, Ignotus is of opinion that he will not object to it, if not too often repeated. Stomachs may be so far vitiated as to lose all relish for plain roast, or boiled meat, in which case the patient should apply to his physician, rather than persevere in the constant use of savoury and high-seasoned dishes, to the great annoyance of Archæus, who cannot discharge his necessary duty without a supply of such bland particles as are afforded by unadulterated flesh meat.

PEASE SOUP, MAIGRE.

TO a quart of split pease put three quarts of water, and boil gently till the pease are perfectly dissolved; then pulp them through a sieve, and return them into the water, with the addition of carrots, turnips, celery, leeks, thyme, sweet marjoram, onions, three anchovies, or a red

herring, and a few pepper-corns. When sufficiently stewed, strain, and put to the soup some browning. Add catchup and salt. Send up with fried bread cut into small squares.

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THIS is a good set-off against high-seasoned dishes. An occasional abstinence that does not allow the stomach to be quite empty at any one time, is a measure highly salutary, and for religious purposes, is, perhaps, preferable to long fasting, a practice medically to be condemned. An honest Physician who, regardless of his fees, can view with pleasure the healthy state of a family where he has been received with kindness, will be happy in the recommendation of a practice that is calculated to preserve the general health of his friends. But to the disgrace of a profession, otherwise useful and honourable, there are some men, who, like the savages upon a rocky coast, view an epidemical disease as a "God-send."

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