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gether in the bottom of a pot; cover them with water; throw 
in a piece of butter; cover the pot, and let them stew slowly 
for an hour and a quarter; if they are old birds, an hour and 
three quarters. 
ENGLISH OR JACK SNIPE, AND WOODCOCK. 
These birds live by suction, and have no crop, the stomach 
being somewhat pear-shaped, and about the size of a bullet. 
They should be cooked without being drawn, either by broil- 
ing, or skewered, with the ends resting on crotched sticks or 
on the sides of a small tin pan. A small, thin slice of pork, 
covering the breast, should be tied round the bird, with a 
slice or two of toast laid under it to receive the drippings. 
Cook fifteen or twenty minutes, according to size, before or 
over a lively fire. Those who do not like the trail should 
nevertheless cook the bird whole, and remove the trail after 
1t is served up, otherwise the flavor of the bird is nearly 
lost. The trail, head, and neck are worth all the rest to ep- 
icures. 
TO SELECT MUSHROOMS. 
They grow in open pasture; those near or under trees are 
poisonous; they first appear very small, round in shape, and 
on a small stalk; the upper part and stalk are white; as they 
increase in size, the under part gradually expands, and shows 
a fringe fir of a fine salmon color, and so continues until the 
increase in size is considerable, when it changes to a dark 
brown. The poisonous kind have a yellowish skin, and the 
under part is not @ clear salmon color, while the fringe or fir 
is white or yellow. The good smells pleasantly, the other 
rank. 
