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was prefently feized with dreadful convulfions, which 

 foon put a period to her life. This melancholy- 

 cafe has been already communicated to the publick 

 by my ingenious friend Dr, PercivaL* 



If our pickles muft abfolutely look green to 

 pleafe the eye at the expence of health, or even 

 life, why (hould our fair authors, who prefide over 

 all culinary operations, and confcquently over our 

 health and lives, thus mince the matter? Why 

 not deep the pickles at once in a ftrong folution 

 of verdigris? This furely, on certain occafions, 

 would be a capital improvement, as it would fpee- 

 dily impart to them a more elegant green, together 

 with the entire virtue of the falutary ingredient. 

 By thus rendering them " fit to eat" in two or 

 three hours, inftead of as many days, it would 

 difpatch the bufmefs with more certainty and 

 greater expedition. 



After pickles we are prefented with creams; 

 therefore, to crown the banquet, I fhall ferve up a 

 very curious one by way of defert. 



Ratafia Cream, 



Take fix large laurei-leaves, boil them In a quart of thick 

 cream, adding eggs, fugar, &c. 



,* See Med. Tranf. of the Royal CoUeg^, vol. iii. 



Whether 



