grated cheese, mixed with crumbs of bread, should be shaken over it, and the surface bro.ned with a salamander.

OBS.

The addition of some mild, but fat, Cheshire cheese, is a great improvement. The cheese named "Trent Bank," when grated, makes a good substitute for Parmesan.

BURNT BUTter.

PUT half a pound of butter into a stew-pan with six anchovies, four shalots, two blades of mace, and four tea-spoonfuls of white pepper. Add flour, and keep stirring till the mixture become as thick as paste. When cold, put the mixture into a pot, for the purpose of thickening all brown sauces. When used, dissolve as much as may be wanted in boiling water, and strain.

A CARROT SOUP.

TAKE carrots well scraped, and boil them in water, till quite tender; then pulp them through a sieve. Have ready some good beef gravy, to which put the carrots; and after stewing a short

time, put in some butter with flour, to thicken

the soup.

OBS.

THIS is a very wholesome soup; and on the consideration of its making a part of our diet, I shall medically consider it as an antiscorbutic.

WATER SOUCHY.

TAKE a quart of water, a few perch or flounders, some parsley, and parsley roots.

Stew

these in a proper pan, and, when soft, pulp them through a sieve. Into the liquor put the remainder of the fish, with more parsley and parsley roots, and some salt. Boil till the fish is thought enough, and then send it up in the surrounding water, together with the roots.

OBS.

A few of the fish stewed down, strengthens the water in which the fish is afterwards sent up. For want of this precaution, the soup has a maigre taste. Slices of bread and butter are generally sent up to be eaten with the fish.

medical view this is a very wholesome dish.

In a

A SIMPLE SOUP.

TAKE three quarts of good gravy. Put it into a sauce-pan with two carrots, three or four turnips, three or four potatoes, some celery, lettuce, endive, parsley, and a piece of butter with a little flour. Stew till the vegetables become quite tender, so as to permit them to be rubbed through a sieve, after which let them be put to the soup. Stew again for about a quarter of an hour, and season to the taste. If too strong, add a little

water.

OBS.

THIS is a very simple soup, and cannot be said to contain either gout or scurvy. Some part of the vegetables may be left unpulped.

FISH SAUCE.

A GILL of mushroom pickle; a gill of walnut pickle; six anchovies pounded; two cloves of garlic; and half a tea-spoonful of Cayenne pepper. Boil all together, and bottle when cold. When used, shake the bottle, and put the required quantity into some melted butter.

OBS.

SUCH is the variety of fish sauces, that the cook can have no difficulty in fixing upon one that has the desired properties. This, by some,

is called Quin's sauce. In this branch of cookery, I believe every cook has his nostrum, of which, part may be his own invention, and part may be derived from tradition.

A CARROT SOUP.

TAKE a shin of beef, four quarts of water, some onions, celery, parsley, thyme, salt, and pepper to the taste. Stew these together for the space of five hours, and strain through a hairsieve. When cold, take off the fat. Then having a sufficient number of carrots boiled, and pulped through a sieve, put them to the soup, adding some rice previously boiled in water. Boil and send up hot.

OBS.

THIS Soup may be considered as an antiscor butic.

A MAIGRE SOUP.

TAKE six ounces of butter.

pieces, and put it into a stew-pan.

Cut it into

When a little

browned, take three or four onions sliced, three or four heads of celery, two handfuls of spinage, some cabbage, two or three turnips, some parsley, two or three cabbage lettuces, and pepper and salt to the taste. Stew these gently about half an hour, then put to them two quarts of water. Simmer till the roots become quite tender, when any part of them may be taken out. Put in the crust of a French roll, and send the dish up to table.

OBS.

THIS is a good antidote against turtle, venison, high-seasoned soups, and ragouts. It is the poor man's soup, and contains neither gout nor scurvy. "The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep." Eccles.

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