460 MEDICINES. 



Have a fowl skinned and quartered ; 



Put it over the fire in a quart of cold water ; 



Boil it full two hours : 



Then add two ounces (or a handful) of pearl barley; 



Three blades of mace j about two dozen peppercorns ; and 



Salt to your taste ; 



Then let a/I boil together for one more hour : 



A nd it may be eat immediately ; or put by, to warm again whenever 

 you want it. 



The convenience of this camp cooking is, that it will serve for any 

 kind of fowl. For instance, if you have an old barn door hen; old 

 game that is shot all to pieces ; two or three couple of gulls ; coots; 

 or even curlews, by consigning them in this manner, to constant 

 boiling and steam, you make those birds eatable and digestible, 

 which, in roasting, or common cooking, would prove offensive in 

 taste, and hard in substance. 



N. B. The pearl barley (or rice, by the way, if you prefer it) does 

 well with all poultry, and birds of white flesh. But with coarse birds 

 (here we cease to have a dish for invalids), such as curlews, herons, 

 gulls, or coots, it becomes necessary to omit the pearl barley ; be- 

 cause you there require onion ; fish sauce ; lemon, and even a glass 

 of madeira, if you can get it; similar to dressing a turtle, or making 

 giblet soup. This you would, of course, make stronger, and boil, 

 perhaps, an hour more than chicken soup. All such messes may be 

 eat with anchovy, curry powder, or what you may fancy, to give them 

 an additional gout. 



An old sportsman, having thus far subsisted tolerably 

 well, may, afterwards, with the help of his gun or 

 fishing-rod, be enabled to fare decently, and enjoy good 

 sport; while some poor helpless exotic would have 

 spurned the very soil of the place ; left it in disgust, 

 before he had killed a bird or a fish ; and, as likely as 

 not, be laid up and fleeced at the next inn, arid there 

 saddled with some country apothecary. 



To be as brief as I can, on this uninteresting, though 

 possibly useful, head, let me take a memorandum of the 



