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a tin mould, or drop in buttons on a baking tin; bake in a 
moderate oven, and keep the nuts in an air-tight canister. 
** Parkin ” is suitable at the light supper, or at the lunch, of a 
costive invalid. Take one pound of flour (and, if approved, 
one pound of medium oatmeal), two pounds of brown treacle, 
one pound of dark moist sugar, half a pound of butter, one ounce 
of ground ginger, the yolks of four fresh eggs (well beaten), and 
half a teaspoonful of powdered carbonate of soda; melt the 
treacle in a warm oven, rub the butter into the flour (with the 
oatmeal), mix all the other ingredients well together, and stir 
into the flour; pour into well-buttered baking tins (not more 
than an inch thick of the mixture into the tins), and bake very 
slowly in a cool oven for quite an hour, then cut into suitable 
squares. For the prevention of habitual constipation a simple 
sort of Gingerbread made with some fresh butter (and perhaps 
oatmeal, unless this disagrees) is effective. In Dame Deborah 
Bunting’s Book of Receipts (1766) it is directed to “ take half a 
pound of London treacle, two eggs beaten up, one pound of 
fresh butter (melted), half a pound of moist brown sugar, one 
and a half ounces of powdered ginger, which mix with as much 
flower (sic) as will roll it into a paste ; roll it out, and cut it into 
whatever shapes you please ; bake it into a slow oven; a little 
time does it.” 
Ginger tea was at one time a popular beverage. Coleridge 
had a weakness for this infusion, and advised it to his wife for 
their small son Hartley. He thought the boy would like it, 
and that it would help him to grow, the father declaring that 
a teaspoonful of Ginger piled up would make enough tea to last 
the child for two days, always half-filling the teacup with milk ; 
he himself took Ginger mixed in his morning coffee, and a cup 
of Ginger tea in the afternoon. Similarly, “ When feeling cold 
think of Ginger,” quoth the immortal Jorrocks. . 
For “ Mandarin Pudding,” a wholesome stomachic dish, “ mix 
a quarter of a pound of fine bread-crumbs, a quarter of a pound 
of finely-chopped suet, a quarter of a pound of Jamaica preserved 
Ginger, with two eggs, and two tablespoonfuls of syrup otf Ginger ; 
pour into a buttered mould, and steam for four hours.” 
GOAT. 
Cartes Lams, in his Elia’s Essay, Grace before Meat, has said : 
“During the early times of the world, and the hunter state of 
