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Harriet Dawbarne cookbook, January 1834

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Standard Domestic Ammonia Wholesale S A Company Limited bed Ford London E The Industrial Poultry Keeper London Fauciers Gazette Limited 1/-by Edward Brown F L S Why do men entoxicate themselves 6d translations of Tolstoi's tirade against drink & tobacco (Eden Remington & Co London Terrapin greatly liked at New York a fish 7 inches often long a tide water tortoise natives of tropics feed on vegetables and on fish reptiles & other aquatic animals. There is a salt water variety abundant in salt marshes round Charlestown. 2 medium sized terrapins are dressed in 1/2 a pint of "mirepoix?" sauce to which are added a tablespoonful of flour, 1/2 glassful of Madeira with a cupful of strong consomme. The mixture must be constantly stirred seasoned with pepper & salt and reduced to half its volume. The Terrapin is then cut into small pieces & the ends of the claws are thrown away. Baltimore Club often have them done like this. throughout the Union terrapin are put alive in boiling water to kill them. when tender the shells are taken away. the New York practice is to cut up the meat season it with pepper mace and nutmeg & place it in a stewpan & for every 2 terrapin 4 oz of butter mixed with flour, a glass of white wine & the yolks of two eggs are allowed. Daily T Nov 1892. Vin Mariani Coco Wine 4/ a bottle carraige pint Morell Mackenzie advizes it for asthma, weakness as a tonic. Coca grows in Peru, under the Incas its use was restricted to Nobles and Priests. A wine glassful before each meal 1/2 this for children under 8 years. good for
 
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