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Էջ 196 - ... successively to appear, until the commencement of winter. The buds are picked every morning, before the petals are expanded ; and, as they are gathered, they are put into vinegar and salt. When a sufficient quantity is collected, they are distributed, according to their size, into different vessels, again put into vinegar, and then packed up for sale and exportation. This pickle is much used in sauce for boiled mutton. To persons unaccustomed to it, the taste of capers is unpleasant; but, after...
Էջ 54 - They are then again put upon the sieves, which are placed in an oven, from which the bread has been just drawn. The door of the oven is closed, and the crevices are stopped round it with clay or dry grass. An hour afterwards, the plums are taken out, and the oven is again shut with a cup of water in it, for about two hours. When the water is so warm as just to be able to bear the finger in it, the prunes are again placed in the oven, and left there for twenty-four hours, when the operation is finished,...
Էջ 258 - ... stale bread crumbs and the same of mashed potatoes ; a little pepper and salt, a bit of butter as big as a walnut, the yolk of an egg or two ; mix these well together, and stuff the goose; do not fill it entirely — the stuffing requires room to swell. Spit it, tie the spit at both ends, to prevent its swinging round, and to keep the stuffing from coming out. The fire must be brisk. Baste it with salt and water at first — then with its own dripping. It will take two hours...
Էջ 258 - ... of mashed potatoes ; a little pepper and salt, a bit of butter as big as a walnut, the yolk of an egg or two ; mix these well together, and stuff the goose; do not fill it entirely — the stuffing requires room to swell. Spit it, tie the spit at both ends, to prevent its swinging round, and to keep the stuffing from coming out. The fire must be brisk. Baste it with salt and water at first — then with its own dripping. It will take two hours or more to roast it thoroughly. A Green Goose, that...
Էջ 54 - Provence plums being most fleshy, and having always most bloom. Both kinds are, however, made of these and other kinds of plums, in various parts of France. The plums are gathered when just ripe enough to fall from the trees on their being slightly shaken. They are then laid, separately, on frames, or sieves, made of wicker-work or laths, and exposed for several days to the sun, till they become as soft as ripe medlars. When this is the case, they are put into a spent oven, shut quite close, and...
Էջ 71 - ... made a very interesting discovery, which is practically very useful, and very closely approaches in correctness the diagram principle in determining the colours which contrast. He discovered that if a wafer be placed on a white sheet of paper, and gazed steadily at for a few seconds, and then the eye removed to another part of the paper, a spectrum of the same size as the wafer and of its contrasting colour is seen. The spectra are, however, rendered more distinct when the wafers are looked at...
Էջ 257 - As bees require water to drink, especially through this and the next month, it is necessary to place some for them, if there is no pond or rivulet near. Cotton says that, in the Isle of Wight, the people have a notion that every bee goes down to the sea to drink once a day. Water is needful for them in the breeding season, and they will drink water with salt in it, and like it better than the freshest brook that runs. It is very curious to see how they will flock by thousands to the drinkingtroughs...
Էջ 77 - The Secretary read a communication from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, enclosing a copy of a circular letter from the Governor of St. Helena, respecting the ravages committed in that island by white ants. It was therein stated that the insects were, it is supposed, accidentally introduced from the coast of Guinea about twenty years since ; that almost every dwelling, store or shed in Jamestown, containing nearly 4000 inhabitants, has been seriously injured by them, involving, in many instances...
Էջ 77 - It was therein stated that the insects were, it is supposed, accidentally introduced from the coast of Guinea about twenty years since ; that almost every dwelling, store, or shed, in Jamestown, containing nearly 4000 inhabitants, has been seriously injured by them, involving, in many instances, complete ruin and abandonment, and imperilling the lives of large numbers of the poorer classes, who are still living in houses of doubtful security : the Governor was especially anxious for detailed information...
Էջ 77 - ... those receptacles, and as to the description of timber which has proved to be the least susceptible of injury from the insect, and the average market price of that timber at per cubic foot. Gen. Sir J. Hearsey, after detailing some of his...