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She lifted the cover: there was such a pork-chop as Simpson never served, with a dish of mashed potatoes that would have formed at least six portions in our degenerate days in Rupert Street. When he had helped himself to these delicacies, the lady put the cover on the dish again, and watched him eating with interest.
"Law, Mis' Tutt," expostulated Miranda, his ancient negro handmaiden, as he pushed away the chop and mashed potato, and even his glass of claret, untasted, in his old-fashioned dining room on West Twenty-third Street, "you ain't got no appetite at all! You's sick, Mis' Tutt." "No, no, Miranda!" he replied weakly. "I'm just getting old." "You's mighty spry for an old man yit," she protested.
As she turned her sorrel, Papoose, into the corral she noticed several four-year-old colts in the pasture lot. As she returned to the house Harris appeared in the door. "Grub-pile," he announced. They sat down to a meal of broiled steak, mashed potatoes, hot biscuits, coffee and raspberry jam.
If you have any cod fish left from dinner, mix it with mashed potatoes, and enough flour to stick them together; season with pepper; make it into little cakes, and fry them in ham drippings. To Boil Salt Shad, Mackerel Or Herring.
Put the mixture into the freezer and freeze. Raspberry, strawberry, currant, and all fruit ice-creams are made in the same manner. A little powdered sugar sprinkled over the fruit before it is mashed assists to extract the juice.
"That is what comes from listening to the voice of nature," chuckled Hippy. "Here are some of our provisions," called Grace, who had been clambering over the logs, peering under them and feeling about among the pine cones. She uncovered a dozen or so cans of food, all dented, some mashed out flat, and while she was doing this Elfreda discovered some badly battered mess kits.
"'Go for it, says I. "'Correct, says George. 'Then go for this Mrs. De Clinton the same. "'How am I to do it? I asks. 'By force and awfulness or in some gentler and less lurid manner? "'Court her, George says, 'get her off my trail. Feed her. Take her out in boats. Hang around her and stick to her. Get her mashed on you if you can. Some women are pretty big fools.
Have ready a piece of butter the size of an egg, melted in half a cup of boiling hot milk and a good pinch of salt; mix it well with the mashed potatoes until they are a smooth paste, taking care that they are not too wet.
Grate in a piece of celery root and a piece of garlic about the size of a bean, add a small onion, a minced tomato, a quarter of a loaf of stale bread; also grated, and mix up the whole with one egg. If you prefer, you may soak the bread, press out every drop of water and dry in a heated spider with fat. Add two cups of hot, mashed Irish or sweet potatoes to bread stuffing.
De dunderin' nigger liked to kill me." Miss Prescott was dumbfounded to hear her lover spoken of in this manner. "Why, what do you mean, my friend? Why do you speak of him in that manner?" "He jumped down out of a tree on top of mine head, and nearly mashed it down lower dan my shoulders. Den he rolled round, kicked up his heels and laughed at me." "Of whom are you speaking? Lieutenant Can "
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