The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual: Comprising Everything Pertaining to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine

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William Strange, 1842 - 457 páginas
 

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Página 173 - Chickens infour or five days. Set rice over the fire with skimmed milk, only as much as will serve one day. Let it boil till the rice is quite swelled out : you may add a tea-spoonful or two of sugar, but it will do well without. Feed them three times a day, in common pans, giving them only as much as will quite fill them at once.
Página 107 - GAM & piece of pork or bacon, and put it into a saucepan, with a piece of butter the size of a walnut ; fry the bacon brown, and when quite done, put in the partridges, and keep turning them until they are very brown, taking care that the bacon shall be as much on the breast as possible ; then add about a teacupful of gravy.
Página 260 - ... or materially compressing the skins. Four gallons of water are then to be poured into the vessel, and the contents are to be carefully stirred and squeezed in the hand, until the whole of the juice and pulp are separated from the solid matters.
Página 207 - ... one ditto of oyster liquor, two ounces of butter, warmed, and two eggs long beaten : make into balls, and fry of a fine brown in butter IV.
Página 386 - ... half a gill of brandy, and let the mixture remain until the cakes are dissolved, when it may be stirred a little. To a quart of cream add a quarter of a pound of powdered loaf sugar and a glass of noyau, and head with a whisk till it stands alone ; as the froth rises, take it off...
Página 328 - ... mouth, perhaps sickness, rumbling noise in the bowels ; in some cases of depraved digestion there is nearly a complete disrelish for food, but still the appetite is not greatly impaired, as at the stated period of meals persons so afflicted can eat heartily, although without much gratification ; a long train of nervous symptoms are also frequent attendants, general debility, great languidness, and incapacity for exertion.
Página 53 - To take off the wing, put your fork into the small end of the pinion, and press it close to the body ; then put in the knife at d, and divide the joint, taking it down in the direction d, e.
Página 173 - When you put fresh, let the pans be set in water, that no sourness may be conveyed to the fowls, as that prevents them from fattening. Give them clean water, or the milk of the rice, to drink ; but the less wet the latter is when perfectly soaked, the better. By this method the flesh will have a clear whiteness which no other food gives ; and when it is considered how far a pound of rice will go, and how much time is saved by this mode, it will be found to be as cheap as barley-meal, or more so....
Página 321 - There is likewise a great thirst and costiveness, and the pulse is full and frequent, beating, perhaps, 90 or 100 strokes in a minute. When the symptoms run very high, and there is a considerable determination of blood to the head, a delirium will arise. In this fever, as well as most others, there is generally an increase of symptoms towards evening. As a fever once produced will go on, although its cause be...
Página 244 - ... gallons, have been manufactured in one year. A third was purchased by the merchants of Rheims, and at least as much more has been made in one year in this last arrondissement. " In the month of March or April, after 284 the wine designed for effervescence is made, it is put into bottle.

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