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To Pickle Pork. Take out all the ribs, and cut it in pieces of about three pounds each; pack it in a tight barrel, and salt it well with coarse salt; boil a very strong pickle made of coarse salt, and when it is cold pour it over the meat, and put a weight on the top; if you wish pork to keep, do not put saltpetre in, as it injures the flavor. To Cure Hams and Shoulders.
I remember the first time I crossed the Channel that I was very ill, and every time I have been at sea since I have always felt that it would be unwise to boast; but I think both you and I can make our voyage without being troubled in that way. But we won't boast, Pickle, for, as they say, we will not holloa till we are out of the wood.
It is proper for a top or bottom dish either summer or winter. To make a NEAT's TONGUE PIE. To broil SHEEP or HOG's TONGUES. Boil, blanch, and split your tongues, season them with a little pepper and salt, then dip them in egg, strow over them a few bread-crumbs, and broil them whilst they be brown; serve them up with a little gravy and butter. To Pickle PORK.
One handed each prisoner as he passed a large slice of meat; another gave him a handful of ground coffee; a third a handful of sugar; a fourth gave him a pickle, while a fifth and sixth handed him an onion and a loaf of fresh bread. This filled the horn of our plenty full. To have all these in one day meat, coffee, sugar, onions and soft bread was simply to riot in undreamed-of luxury.
That the K. of Prussia told the Pretender he would assist him in procuring him six thousand Swedes from Gottenburgh, with the Collusion of the Court of France, but Pickle understood that this was to take place in the Event only of a War breaking out.
"Scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea-, peck of troubles: pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio mess, ado; false position; set fast, stand; dead,-lock,-set; fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac; hitch; stumbling block, &c. The catalogues of allied adjectives and of allied verbs are even longer than the foregoing.
Garnish with pickle and lemon. FINE CAKE. To make an excellent cake, rub two pounds of fine dry flour with one of butter, washed in plain and then in rose water. Mix with it three spoonfuls of yeast, in a little warm milk and water. Set it to rise an hour and a half before the fire, and then beat into it two pounds of currants, carefully washed and picked, and one pound of sifted sugar.
For Marguerite of the Mud Flats I made special studies for months and months." "Of what sort?" we asked. "In mud. Learning to model it. You see for a story of that sort the first thing needed is a thorough knowledge of mud all kinds of it." "And what are you doing next?" we inquired. "My next book," said the Lady Novelist, "is to be a study tea? of the pickle industry perfectly new ground."
When well skimmed put in the melons, boil fifteen minutes, twenty is still better; take out the fruit, put it in jars and boil the syrup awhile longer. Skim it again and pour boiling hot upon the fruit. Seal when cold. This tomato looks like an egg-shaped plum and makes a very nice sweet pickle.
"Oh, that is the way they don't do here," he provoked her. "You mustn't, when I'm not expecting it." "Then what are you expecting?" she inquired a little coolly. "Well," he deliberated, "not expecting you to get me ready for a sweet, and then pop in a pickle; and presently expecting, hoping, anxiously anticipating, what you really care to say."
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