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To make Sweet-meat Cream. From the same. Take either clean Cream from the Dairy, or else make the foregoing artificial Cream, and slice preserv'd Apricots, or preserv'd Peaches or Plums, into it, having first sweeten'd the Cream well, with fine Loaf Sugar, or with the same Syrup they were preserv'd in. Mix these well, and serve them separately, cold, in China Basons. To embalm Pidgeons.
I have fancied, I say, some such venerable relic of this time of ours, preserv'd to the next or still the next generation of America. I have fancied, on such occasion, the young men gathering around; the awe, the eager questions: "What! have you seen Abraham Lincoln and heard him speak and touch'd his hand? Have you, with your own eyes, look'd on Grant, and Lee, and Sherman?"
They are in great esteem when they are fresh taken, to be cut in Pieces, of eight or ten Pounds, and roasted or baked; besides, to be pickled and preserv'd for cold Treats: And moreover, the Caviar, which is esteem'd a Dainty, is the Spawn of this Fish. To Cure, or Pickle, Sturgeon; from Hamborough.
This requires much pains, and takes up a great deal of time; but they work cheap, and the goodness of the Plank thus hewed, which hath its grain preserv'd entire, makes amends for their cost and pains. They build good and serviceable Ships or Barks for the Sea, some for Trade, others for Pleasure; and some Ships of War. Their trading Vessels they send chiefly to Manila.
And yet as if it was honour to rave, this impotent Wretch must still be daring at something above him, as if he reckon'd it weakness to own of what he was made, and thought any submission too great a price to pay for being preserv'd.
Make some Coffins of sweet Paste, and when they are gently baked, and cold, fill them with the above-mention'd Marmalade of Peaches, and serve them. Apricots preserv'd for Tarts. From the same. Take Apricots of the largest kind, When they begin to turn to Ripeness, pare them and discharge them from the Stones.
But, although thus helpless, the innocency of their lives, and the resign'd cheerfulness of their dispositions to their allotments, made the labor and toil of taking care of them agreeable and pleasant; and I trust we were preserv'd from murmuring or repining, believing the dispensation to be in wisdom, and according to the will and gracious disposing of an all-wise providence, for purposes best known to himself.
When we want to use these for boiling, frying, or to accompany other Meats, we must put them into warm Water, often repeating it to them for eight and forty Hours, by which means they will come to themselves, and be as good when they come to be scalded as if they were fresh gather'd. But they may also be preserv'd after the following manner. Second Way to preserve Artichokes.
Every few miles were large towns or villages. Wednesday late we arriv'd at Albany. Spent the evening in exploring. Next morning I started down the Hudson in the "Alida;" arriv'd safely in New York that evening. From the New Orleans Picayune, Jan. 25, 1887. Thousands lost here one or two preserv'd ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, Aug. 22, 1865.
Is this the Gratitude you pay my Favours, That gave ye life, after your wrongs to me? But 'twas my Sister's Kindness that preserv'd thee And I prefer'd my Vengeance to the Gods. Alcip. Your Sister is a Saint whom I adore; But I refuse a Life that comes from you. Isil. What mean you, Sir? Alcip. To speak a truth, as dying Men should do. Phi. Alcip. No, Prince, not whilst I am in love with dying.
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