The Dudley book of cookery and household recipes

Take a large jar, and to every pint of white vinegar add three-quarters of an ounce of lavender flowers. Leave them to infuse for twenty-four hours. Put the jar well bedded into a fish-kettle and allow it to simmer for six or eight hours without boiling. Strain and bottle for use. There is no great banquet but some fares ill there is no jollity but hath a smack of folly. ¥ Dinner was made for eating, not for talkin'. Thackeray We were to do more business after dinner : but after dinner is after dinner, an old saying and a true, much drinking, little thinking. Letters to Mrs. Johnson (Stella) A dinner warmed up again was never worth anything. Boileau A pin a day will fetch a groat a year. ’'Tis by his cleanliness a cook must please. William Kino, LL.D. Hunger will break through stone walls or anything except Suffolk cheese. Cheese is a peevish elf, it digests all things but itself. From the German Feasting — the way to the heart. % There is no peace where there is no feast. Lord Clarendon ¥ 'Twas at the public feast and public day, Quite full, right dull, guests hot and dishes cold; Great plenty, much formality, small cheer, And everybody out of their own sphere. Byron FOOD— EVILS OF INSUFFICIENCY The benefits which accrue to the body from supplying it with a sufficiency of wholesome food, show in the strongest light the evils which result from insufficiency. Disease is one of the first. Many diseases are induced by it, many are aggravated. Sanitary movements having reference to the poor cannot possibly effect any lasting amelioration of their condition so long as they go short of proper aliment. It is worthy the attention of philanthropists that epidemic and pestilential diseases in particular are far more widely fatal in their ravages among the ill fed than among the well fed. Certainly there are several such diseases which assail rich and poor alike—as measles, smallpox and scarlet fever; but even these are much more destructive when they attack persons who have been forced to subsist on too scanty nourishment. Legislators no less than the charitable may find in this fact a vitally important principle of action. Insufficiency over prolonged, induces the slow and miserable death of starvation — and no physical EVILS OF INSUFFICIENCY calamity can be conceived of as more terrible. Yet starvation, actual killing starvation, is perhaps the least part of the injury to the human race which comes of privation of needfid sustenance. Actual death from hunger is only an occasional thing; the evils which accrue from customary stint — life still dragging on — are incalculably more extended and severe. Even the physical disease which they engender is a slight evil compared with the impeded mental action which must needs follow. A miserable starving dietary while it weakens the body half paralyzes the soul, and not seldom leads direct to insanity itself. When we remember how entirely the brain depends for its nourishment upon the bloody and that if this pabulum of life and nervous energy be either diminished in quantity or deteriorated in quality^ no organ of the body can possibly work well, how easy it is to see that between insufficient, innutritious diet and prostration of mind there is little less than an inevitable connection.