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meat balls served hot on small oval dishes. These should 

 be fried a delicate brown. 



Forcemeat for the above : Take a loaf of baker's flour- 

 bread, and grate it; add an equal quantity of beef-suet, 

 chopped very fine ; season highly with pepper, clove, salt, nut- 

 meg or mace, cayenne, sweet-marjoram, and wet the whole 

 with eggs till they may be rolled in balls. Those which you 

 fry will require but little butter, as the fat fries from them. 



OYSTER SOUP. 



To fifty oysters, one pint of water, one pint and a half of 

 milk, to be mixed with the liquor. Wash the oysters from 

 their liquor, and strain the last or pour it from its sediment ; 

 then add the water, and half a spoonful of ground mace, a 

 salt-spoonful of salt, half a salt-spoonful of ground clove ; let 

 it come to a boil ; strain it through a cloth, then add the milk 

 and the oysters, and let it come once more to a boil. Take 

 one large spoonful of flour mixed smoothly like mustard, stir it 

 in, and take off the pot ; put in a piece of butter ; brown three 

 thin slices of bread well dried in the oven previous to toasting, 

 cut them in small square pieces and lay them in the dish, and 

 pour the soup over them. 



STRAWBERRY. (Fragaria.) Select for this valu- 

 able plant a deep loamy soil, that will allow of free culture ; 

 for though an herbaceous plant, the roots of many varieties if 

 encouraged will penetrate to the depth of two feet in one 

 season ; hence the ground should be ploughed and thoroughly 

 pulverized to the depth of a foot or more, then spread on a 

 few inches of well-decomposed stable-manure, and harrow in, 

 making the ground level ; mark it off by a line in alternate 

 rows of three feet by eighteen inches. Choose strong young 

 plants, taking them up carefully in order that the roots may 

 be entire, and set them in the rows, eighteen or twelve inches 

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