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and take out the brains. Boil the head till it become tender, then from one half of it take off the flesh and cut it into small pieces; dredge with a little flour, and let it stew on a slow fire for about a quarter of an hour in a rich white gravy made of veal, a piece of bacon, and seasoned with pepper and salt, onion, and a very little mace. Take off the meat from the other half of the head in one whole piece, and roll it like a collar, after having stuffed it with forcemeat. Stew it tender in good gravy. When done enough, put it in a dish with the hash made of the other part of the head around it, and garnish with force-meat balls, fried oysters, and the brains made into cakes and fried in butter. Wine, truffles, morels, mushrooms, or any kind of seasoning, to the taste.

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THIS is a savoury way of dressing a calf's head, but it must be considered as a dish not very proper for such as are afflicted with painful fits of inflammatory gout.

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 the duck, and pour the gravy

and pease over it.

OBS.

Ducks, dressed in this manner, are full as mild as when roasted, and 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 and boned, put them in the centre of the 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 calf's feet, or any other tender meat. A few 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. Spinage, or sorrel, stewed in gravy, makes a good substitute for pease.

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 stewpan 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.

A DUNELM OF MUTTON.

TAKE the caul sent in with 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, the rind of half a lemon grated, and some pepper and salt. 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 ever it some hot brown gravy. Send up with venison sauce in a boat. In the north, this is called, a Royal Haggis.

OBS.

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

class of men, he ventures to make the following proposal for the good of all: Let the Podagric enjoy his savoury dishes, on condition that every fourth day he submits to eat fish, plain 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, twenty spoonfuls of white wine vinegar, a few spoonfuls of catchup, a bunch of sweet herbs, some onions sliced, a few pickled mushrooms, and a small quantity of pepper. Let these ingredients

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