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A SALT RECIPE. 



There is a great fashion, now-a-days, in all papers, to 

 set forth useful recipes for every imaginable purpose. 

 Every newspaper has its weekly budget of recipes. Our 

 magazines have a page of original recipes; and, before 

 long, why should not the North American Jieview, or the 

 Edinburgh Meview come out with their quarterly bill of 

 fare reciped in full ? So practical is our nineteenth cen- 

 tury, that our literary men and women feel it to be a solemn 

 duty to indite novel recipes for cooking, seasoning, remov- 

 ing stains, curing diseases, etc. ; and why not? If one can 

 invent a sonnet, an elegy, or worse yet, a poem, and thus 

 draw people's brains a wool-gathering in the regions of 

 imagination, ought they not to atone for their license by an 

 invention equally substantial for the body? Miss Leslie 

 writes a beautiful story, and a recipe for manipulating 

 lobsters. Miss Martineau writes travels, political econo- 

 mies and suggestions on plum pudding. Mrs. Sigourney 

 tunes her lyre with a hand most redolent of pies, cakes and 

 gingerbread. Such is the aspect of culinary affairs, and 

 the rights of women, that the day seems at hand when no 

 learning will sustain a man, and no accomplishments a 

 woman, who does not understand the art and mystery of 

 cooking. It will be the duty of some future Heyne to give 

 accurate recipes for all the feasts of Homer's heroes, the 

 ingredients of all the Horacian drinking-bouts — the dishes 

 of Virgil's fine fellows, as well as the minor matters of 

 armor, language, manners, and customs ; and a good lexi- 

 con, Hebrew, Greek, or Latin, must contain clearly written 

 recipes for all the dishes used by the people whose lan- 

 guage it sets foi-th. "We have been led into this grand 

 prairie of reflections by a recipe found in a country papei; 

 which unquestionably is salty. 



" Indian Baked Pudding. — Indian pudding is good and 

 wholesome, baked. Scald a quart of milk, and stir in seven 



