The Dudley book of cookery and household recipes

and pour over the grill and butter. The grill to be turned over once or twice with a fork and served, SAUTED CHICKEN LIVERS FOR BREAKFAST Take six chicken livers and divide them in halves. See that they are very fresh and free from gall. Place in a stewpan a piece of fresh butter and a little onion chopped very fine. Let this fry for one minute, then add the livers and fry them quickly a nice light brown. Add a little meat essence, a little chopped parsley, pepper, and salt, and serve very hot for breakfast. This dish must be served at once, otherwise the livers become hard, which spoils them. Grouse livers can be substituted for chicken livers, and this dish is equally good as a savoury, ¥ A BREAKFAST DISH Kidneys cooked in their Fat Take three fresh sheep’s kidneys, without removing their fat, cut into rounds about half an inch in thickness. Dip them in cream and season, then dip them into flour, and fry in bacon fat a golden brown on each side. Serve very hot on rounds of toast or fried bread. SCRAPED BEEF To BE SERVED FOR BrEAKFAST OR LuNCH Take two pounds of Hamburg hung beef. Boil it gently for about two hours. Take it out of the pan and let it get cold. Remove all skin and outside. Scrape it with a meat grater sold for the purpose, and serve piled on a napkin or dessert paper. PINK HASH An American Recipe for Breakfast or Lunch Take some very tender raw smoked beef, cut it into very fine pieces like a julienne. Put it into a stewpan with cold water until it boils, then drain off the water, add some cream, and put it back on to the fire. Thicken it with some fresh butter and a little flour worked in at the last moment. The cooking should take fifty minutes. The smoked beef can be obtained from Jackson, grocers in Piccadilly, in glass jars. Plenty is the child of peace. W. Peynne Breaking through the chills of ceremony and selfishness and thawing every heart into a fiow. Washington Irving No woman should marry a teetotaler or a man who does not smoke. Robert Louis Stevenson Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa rounds And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column^ and the cups That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each^ So let us welcome peaceful evening in. COWPEE They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton ¥ Drink makes men hungry or it makes them lie. George Wilkins (17th Century) Kent, sir, everybody knows Kent ! Apples, cherries, hops and women. Pickwick Papers Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." IzAAK Walton ¥ The feast of reason and the flow of sold. Pope Rare things please us ; so there is greater relish for the earliest fruit of the season ; and roses in winter command a high price. Martial CLEAR BARLEY WATER ONE quarter pound of barley, well washed, to half a gallon of boiling water, two lumps of sugar, and the rind of two lemons. Cut very thin, care being taken to pare the yellow rind for the barley water, throwing away the white inside skin. Allow it to get cold, then strain. HOCK OR MOSELLE CUP