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Young Gilian at the churn stood with parted lips, the long dasher still in her hands. This was as good as stories of elves, pixies, fays, men of peace and all! Elspeth let the milk-pans be and sat beside them on the long bench, and, with hands folded in her lap, looked with brown eyes many a league away. Neither Elspeth nor Gilian was without book learning.
When the mixture is thoroughly frozen, take out the dasher, scrape down the sides of the can, give the ice a thorough beating with a wooden spoon; put the cork in the lid of the can, draw the water from the tub, repack it with coarse ice and salt, cover it with paper and a piece of blanket or burlap, and stand aside for two or three hours to ripen just as you would ice cream.
But, Pierre, 'twas nigh no master at all you came home to. He's been at death's door for weeks. Even yet " Then Angelique turned and saw Margot, whose presence she had not before observed. But she rallied instantly, turning her sentence into a brisk command: "Even yet, the churnin' not done and it goin' on to measure nine o'clock. Get to the dasher, lad, and tie this big apron round your neck.
"That doesn't look as if it ever belonged on a Puritan's front door," said Mrs. Robbins, laughingly. "I rather think it must have come from Merry Mount, where they held the first Maypole dance and shocked good Cotton Mather. I think I'll have to buy that from Sally myself." There were several old lacquered trays and a couple of old gray stone dasher churns.
Fairly out of town, however, we switch up somewhat, ourself watching over the dasher the clods and dust thrown from the mare's shoes, and our father humming snatches of hymns, with his grave eyes twinkling.
When frozen, remove the dasher, stir in the brown bread, repack and stand aside to ripen. This quantity will serve six persons. CARAMEL ICE CREAM, No. 1 1 quart of cream 1/2 pound of sugar 1 teaspoonful of vanilla
Old ladies and gentlemen seemed to have been rigidly tabooed, with the exception, naturally, of our host and hostess, the vicar and his sister; for Lady Dasher, owing to some fortunate conjuncture of circumstances, was unable to come: Miss Spight was busy at home, entertaining an elderly relative who had suddenly thrown herself on her hospitality; while Mr Mawley was at Oxford enjoying the season with sundry dogmatic Fellows of his own calibre.
In those days the family butter was churned in the kitchen by hand power, and often laboriously, in an upright dasher churn which Addison and Theodora had christened Old Mehitable.
Yet, how many of the brave generals in the war, who charged in the very face of flaming batteries, would dare to stop at Mrs. O'Finnigan's and buy ten cents' worth of peanut candy if they saw Mrs. Sweller's carriage approaching, or Miss Dasher just coming upon the walk?
"Bai-ey Je-ove!" he said, after a long pause. "I ah, came akwass a vewy good one the othah day ah. A blind beggah had a bwoth-ah, and the bwoth-ah died; now, what welation was ah, the blind beggah to the ah, dead beggah?" "His sister, of course," said Bessie Dasher, promptly.
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