A second Dudley book of cookery and other recipes

moving at the same time all the skin and pips. Put the fruit in a salad bowl ; add a few thin slices of lemon, free from skin and pips ; pour over the oil and brandy, and season with sugar and cayenne. Add the chopped herbs. Mix thoroughly but carefully, and pile up neatly on a dish. Keep the dish on ice until required for table. PINEAPPLE SALAD CUT half a peeled ripe pineapple into fine shreds (remove the cores before shredding). Mix this with the white part of a small head of celery, cut into small shreds. Place on ice until wanted. A few minutes before serving, mix it with sufficient Mayonnaise sauce to moisten and season the salad. Dress neatly on a deep glass dish ; garnish with slices of lemon, and serve ice cold. CUCUMBER SALAD /CAREFULLY peel the cucumbers ; cut them ^ into two lengthwise ; remove their seeds and slice finely ; place them in a bowl ; sprinkle with table salt, and leave them to drain off their moisture for twenty-five minutes. This done, press them in a cloth ; place in a glass bowl and season with pepper, oil and vinegar, and sprinkle over a little finely chopped chervil. The sauce to meat is ceremony , Meeting were bare without it. SHAKESPEARE “ MACBETH A good crier of green sauce. % RABELAIS Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with its necessaries. % MOTLEY Of herbs and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses. % If ever I ate a good supper at night I dreamed of the Devil , and waked in a fright. THE NEW BATH GUIDE SURFEIT As Surfeit is the father of much fast , So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. A merry heart goes all the day , A sad tires in a mile . The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness . montaigne Cheerfulness , Sirs, is principal ingredient in the composition of health. murphy 5 Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam , Be it ever so humble , there's no place like home. J. HOWARD PAYNE % Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. Never spend your money before you have it. Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap. Pride costs us more than hunger , thirst and cold. We seldom repent of having eaten too little. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. How much pain the evils have cost us, that have never happened. Take things always by the smooth handle. When angry, count ten before you speak. JEFFERSON VIRTUES OF ECONOMY Economy is the parent of integrity , of liberty and of ease ; and the beauteous sister of temperance , of cheerfulness and health ; and profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon , that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debts : that is, fetters them with “ irons that enter into their souls” JOHNSTON BROWN CHAUD-FROID SAUCE