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Remarks.— A. young turkey, or a nicely dressed rabbit, treated iu everj^ way 

 the same as the chicken, will also make a nice fricassee. But our chicken 

 dishes would hardly be complete without a chicken currie, and pevhaiw, also, 

 chicken with green peas, both of which I have obtjxiueil from a book entitled 

 "Indian Domestic Economy and Cookery," which I boiTO'.ved from a Mrs. 

 Bronson, whose husband, Dr. Bronson, had spent over 40 years in India, 

 as a missionary, but whose age and debility required him to return home, and 

 he was then (1881) living at Eaton Rapids, Mich. Dr. Bron.sou was xqtj anx- 

 ious, if his health would allow, to return to his work: but being alx)ut TO years 

 old, I told him I thought he had done all that duty required of him in that far 

 off country, and I doubted much if his health would ever allow liis return 

 This lady was his third wife, a faithful and true helpmate in his work. 1 

 received several items of information from her in relation to the Indian cus- 

 toms, in cooking, etc., which helped me to understand the work alx:>vc men- 

 tioned, much better than I otherwise would, their ways are so different from 

 ours. These items I shall mention in the different places where needed, in the 

 recipes I shall give from this work. They were married in India, where she 

 had lived several years before their marriage. Tlie book was printed in Madras, 

 in 1853, at the 'Christian Knowledge Society Press," and the copy she brought 

 with her showed signs of having been much used. My acquaintance with her 

 was, as some say, purely accidental, others, providential. I was standing in the 

 door of the Frost House, Eaton Rapids, where I w;i3 stopping for the Ijcnefit of 

 the mineral springs and rest, when Mrs. Bronson, in passing with a baby car- 

 riage, having twin babies in it, stopped to talk a few moments with the land- 

 lady, who, with some other ladies, were also standing about, when one of them 

 knowing that Mrs. B. had recently come from India, asked her where the chil- 

 dren were born, to which the answer was: " In Assam," when I at once became 

 interested (as I had a cousin in that province of India), to know if they !iad 

 met; when, on learning his name (Mason) they had been neighlx)rs and co- 

 workers for some years; hence my acquaintance with ]\Irs. B. and her husband, 

 and I thus obtained access to the book from which I lake the next recipe, and 

 a few others which are credited as above indicated. 



My cousin had then been in Asstxm about seven years, in the misaon work. 

 His health, and that of liis wife, having already begun to fail considerably, sG 

 that during the following year (1882) he had to come home, more especially, 

 however, on his wife's account, whose health continued to fail very fast, and 

 although slie seemed to recruit a little on her first arrival, or soon after, yet lier 

 liealtli had been so undermined by her stay iu India, she died within a few 

 months after reaching her frien<is in America. But, notwit4i3*;aading the lives 

 of American women who go out as missionaries, are shoiS ^ Jsdia, yet they 

 generally are so devoted to their work, or to their husbands, ibsy seldom make 

 any complaint — they give themselves, and their lives, cheerfully, for the Mas- 

 ter's cause. Let none fail, therefore, to do their duty, although it should call 

 them to India. 



Chicken Currie, With Biee, as Made in India.— Cut the chicken 

 into as many joints as possible. Take 1 onion and slice it finely and ivy in d 



