A modest little notice in the Home King's College Hospital was about to pers announced not long ago that
publish a book of 600 old-fashioned english cooking recipes in aid of its A farther announcement that Queen Alexandra had accepted a copy gave an artificial stimulus to the demand for the book. But once begun, the sale appears to have been carried on by its own merits. For the collestion contains the secret of many wonderfal dishes which are now a lost art for the generality of cooks, At this point the future social historian might moralize effectively upon the decadence of English life as revealed by the depravity of English palates; the pre-kickshaws cence in artificial sauce as a substitute for natural flavour; and the fact that French menus are now seen openly in the most respectable families. Indeed the King's College Hospital will have done a good work if its book serves to recall the modern generation to the classical tastes of its ancestors. Who remembers now, for instance, how to make yellow flummery? "Who knows the recipe for ram batter, unless it be the hostess of a West Country christening party Even that delicious dish framenty, without which no harvest thanksgiving was once complete, is seldom heard of now; and jagged hare has become a mere ghost of his former savoury self. One recipe which now reappears, deserves to be quoted in full. It is Mrs. Beale's idea of how a fig pudding should be made Of luscious figs that Southern suns have dried, Take half a pound, in tiny squares divide Of breadcrumbs, suet, sugar you shall weigh Six ounces each, and then shall make essay Two apples, with a critic's eye to choose, Of flavor rich and free from speck and bruise.
These also chit in squares. Of citron green Two ounces slice; and then with knife fall keen 'A lemon's rind chop into fragments small Leet well best eggs will leaven But stay, ere o'er the fire the whole you trast To boil four hours, throw in the merest dust OF grated nutmeg. When the pudding's cooked A. simple sauce should not be over:
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—and it is worth noticing that cook will always regard her duties poetically, even if her words do I form. Tt remains red how far the publication of this cookery book wil upon the business of the hospital. sale of it has helped materially in the cost of transferring the hospital from the contre of London to a new site on the outskirts: but will its observance help to fill the new wards or empty them March 25.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.