GENERAL REMARKS FOR
ROASTING.

MEAT should be well jointed before it is put to the fire, and covered with paper, to prevent the fat from scorching; half an hour before the meat is taken up, the paper must be taken off, and the meat basted and dredged with flour, to make it a fine brown; large poultry should also be covered with paper if the fire is very fierce, but small poultry does not require it; be careful not to place meat too near the fire at first; put it nearer by degrees; rather more time should be allowed for roasting with a bottlejack or hanging-jack than with a spit; roasted meat should be frequently basted, and, when nearly done, dredged with flour. It is a general rule to allow a quarter of an hour to a pound for roasting as well as boiling meat.

TO ROAST VEAL. WITH a good fire veal takes about a quarter of an hour to each pound; cover the fat of the loin and fillet with paper. Stuff the fillet and shoulder as follows: Take a quarter of a pound of suet chopped fine; parsley and sweet herbs chopped fine; grated bread and lemon-peel, pepper, salt, nutmeg, and an egg; mix these well, and stuff it into the veal as securely as you can that it may not fall out while roasting; roast the breast with the caul on, till nearly done; then take it off, and flour and baste the meat; lay it in the dish, pour a little melted butter over it, and serve it up with either salad, potatoes, brockoli, cucumbers, French beans, peas, cauliflowers, or stewed celery. Veal must be well done.

TO ROAST PORK. PORK, like veal, must be well done; if a loin, cut the skin across with a sharp penknife, which makes it more convenient to be carved; let each stripe be about half an inch wide; score the leg in the same manner; if not disliked, stuff the knuckle part with a stuffing made of sage and

onion, chopped fine, a spoonful of grated bread, seasoned with pepper and salt, or put the seasoning into a hole under the twist; skewer it in, and roast it crisp; if a spring (which when young eats well), cut off the hand; strew sage and onion over it, roll it round, and tie it; two hours will do it; if a sparerib, baste it with a bit of lard or butter; dust it with flour; chop dried sage, and strew over it; if a griskin, baste it with lard or butter, and strew sage over it; potatoes, apple-sauce, and mustard, are eaten with roast pork; if a leg of pork, have a little drawn gravy, and pour it into the dish, if you think it necessary.

GOOSEBERRY JAM.

GATHER Some red gooseberries, when they are quite ripe, smash them, and to four quarts of fruit add three pounds of sugar; put them into a preserving pan; boil, and scum them when boiled enough, which may be known by putting a little on a plate; if the juice drains from the fruit, it must be boiled longer; when cold, put it into pots; put brandypaper over, and tie it down with another paper; set it in a dry place.

Gooseberry jam may be made with good moist sugar, and put two pounds and a half of sugar to a gallon or fruit; but it must boil longer.

LOBSTER SAUCE.

MELT Some butter in a little milk, with a little flour and a bit of lemonpeel in it; then add some cream; take out the lemon-peel, and put in the lobster, cut into small pieces, with a little of the spawn; simmer all together about ten minutes. Shrimp sauce may be made in the same way, or the shrimps put into plain melted butter.

TO POT MACKAREL. CLEAN, season, and bake them in a pan with spice, bay-leaves, and some butter; when cold take out the bones, and lay them very close in potting-pots, and cover them with clarified butter.

TO PICKLE MACKAREL.

BOIL them in the usual way, let them be cold, take some of the liquor they were boiled in, a few peppercorns, two or three bay-leaves, and some vinegar; boil them together; when cold, put it to the fish.

TO PRESERVE YEAST. TAKE a quantity of yeast, stir and work it with a whisk, till it is thin: then take a clean dry tub, and with a soft brush lay a thin layer of yeast over the bottom of the tub, and cover it over with a cloth; when that coat is dry, lay on another, and repeat it till it is two or three inches thick; one coat of yeast must be dry before another is laid on: it will keep good several months; when wanted for use, cut a piece off, and lay it in warm water to dissolve; then stir it with the water, and it will be fit for use.

ANECDOTES.

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MR. POWELL, THE COMEDIAN. THE first season (1699) the Fair Penitent was acted, Lothario, after he is killed by Altamont in the fourth act, lies dead by proxy in the fifth, raised on a bier covered with black. Mr. Powell played Lothario, and one Warren his dresser, claimed a right of lying for his master, and performing the dead part of Lothario, which he proposed to act to the best advantage, though Powell was ignorant of the matter. The fifth act began, and went on as usual, with applause; but about the middle of the distressing scene, Powell called aloud for his man Warren, who as loudly replied from the bier on the stage, "Here, Sir!" Powell (who, as we said before, was ignorant of the part his man was doing) repeated, without loss of time, "Come here this moment, you son of a w-, or I'll break all the bones in your skin!" Warren, who knew his hasty temper, without any reply, jumped off with all his sables about him, which unfortunately were tied fast to the handles of the bier, and dragged it after him. But this was not all; the laugh and roar began in the audience, till it frightened poor Warren so much, that, with the bier at his tail, he threw down Calista (Mrs. Barry), and overwhelmed her with the table, lamp, book, bones, together with all the lumber of the charnel-house. He tugged till he broke off his trammels, and made his escape; and the play at once ended with an immoderate fit of laughter.

CHARLES the Fifth, one day observed to an ambassador of Henry the Eighth, King of England, "Your master would not give himself the airs he does, were it not for the herring-pond that surrounds his dominions."

"The best touchstone by which the merit of verses can be tried," says Malherbe, "is when people begin to learn them by heart."

show the fairest herd in the Halidome; his greatest danger to repel some pilfering snatcher from the Border; and the utmost distance which would have divided us, would have been the chase of some outlying deer. But, alas! what avails the blood which Halbert has shed, and the dangers which he encounters, to support a name and rank, dear to him because he has it from me, but which we shall never transmit to our pösterity! With me the name of Avenel must expire."

She sighed as these reflections arose, and, looking towards the shore of the lake, her eye was attracted by a group of children of various ages, assembled to see a little ship, constructed by some village artist, perform its first voyage on the water. It was launched amid the shouts of tiny voices and the clapping of little hands, and shot bravely forth on its voyage with a favouring wind, which promised to carry it to the other side of the lake. Some of the bigger Joys ran round to receive and secure it on the farther shore, trying their speed against each other as they sprang like young fawns along the shingly verge of the lake. The rest, for whom such a journey seemed too arduous, remained watching the motions of the fairy vessel from the spot where it had been launched. The sight of their sports pressed on the mind of the childless lady of

Avenel.

"Why are none of these prattlers mine!" she continued, pursuing the tenor of her melancholy reflections. "Their parents can scarce find them in the coarsest food-and I, who could nurse them in plenty, am doomed never to hear a child call me mother!"

The thought sunk on her heart with a bitterness which resembled envy, so deeply is the desire of offspring implanted in the female breast. She pressed her hands together, as if she was wringing them in the extremity of her desolate feeling, as one whom Heaven had written childless. A large stag-hound of the grey-hound species approached at this moment, and attracted perhaps

by the gesture, licked her hands and pressed his large head against them. He obtained the desired caress in return, but still the sad impression remained.

"Wolf," she said, as if the animal could have understood her complaints, "thou art a noble and beautiful animal; but, alas! the love and affection that I long to bestow, is of a quality higher than can fall to thy share, though I love thee much."

And as if she were apologizing to Wolf for withholding from him any part of her regard, she caressed his proud head and crest, while, looking in her eyes, he seemed to ask her what she wanted or what he could do to shew his attachment. At this moment a shriek of distress was heard on the shore, from the playful group which had been lately so jovial. The lady looked and saw the cause with great agony.

The little ship, the object of the children's delighted attention, had stuck among some tufts of the plant which bears the water-lily, that marked a little shoal in the lake about an arrow-flight from the shore. A hardy little boy, who had taken the lead in the race round the margin of the lake, did not hesitate a moment to strip off his wylie-coat, plunge into the water, and swim towards the object of their common solicitude. The first movement of the lady was to call for help; but she observed that the boy swam strongly and fearlessly; and as she saw that one or two villagers, who were distant spectators of the incident, seemed to give themselves no uneasiness on his account, she supposed that he was accustomed to the exercise, and that there was no danger. But whether, in swimming, the boy had struck his breast against a sunken rock, or whether he was suddenly taken with the cramp, or whether he had over-calculated his own strength, it so happened, that when he had disembarrassed the ittle plaything from the flags in which it was entangled, and sent it forward on its course, he had scarce swam a few yards, in his way to the shore, than he raised himself suddenly from the water and screamed aloud,