Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

Timbs, John, 1801-1875.

Date:: 1838

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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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frog is considerably larger tlian the common frog, and though rare in England, is common in Italy, France and Germany. Frogs are brought from the country to Vienna, 3000 or 4000 at a time, and sold to the great dealers, who have conservatories for them.—Proceedings of the Ashmo- lean Society, 1837. Tender Meat. Page 46. Newly killed meat may he made tender by burying it in the soil for ten or twelve hours, or by hanging it up in a fig-tree when the leaves are on. A haunch of venison lately killed has thus been hung up, at about ten o’clock at night, and upon being removed before sunrise next morn- ing, it was found in a perfect state for cooking; and in a few hours more it would have been in a state of putrefac- tion. Duchs. Page 55. From the small town of Aylesbury, there are annually sent to London, through the hands of the higglers, 800,000 ducks. Ripening Fruit. Page 86. A method has lately been proposed to the French Aca- demy of Sciences, of retarding the maturation of plants, &c.; so that fruits, which are usually not eaten after Sep- tember or October, have been retarded until December. Making Coffee. Page 120. For some years past, there has been sold at Paris, under the pompous name of “ Coffee-flowers imported from America,” a dark powder, a pinch of which communicates to coffee a very agreeable aroma, and allows of a little dimi- nution of the quantity. This powder proves to he only sugar caramelized, or rather, almost completely charred. A small quantity of caramel produces precisely the same effect.—Chestnuts, peeled, cut into pieces the size of coffee- seeds, dried, roasted and ground, are excellent substitutes for real coffee.—Iferapath’s Railway Magazine. THE END.