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Directions 
Mow to male a Pafte for mixing with ail Sorts of 
fojt-beak ' 1 d Birds Meat ; fuch as live on fojt Food } 
viz. the Black-Bird, Thrufh, Starling, Sky- 
Lark, Wood - Lark, Nightingale, Robin, 
Wren, &c. 
r_ TO make this Pafte, take half a peck of the 
finefthorfe-beans, being very dry, and ground 
fine j then boult it through a. fine boulter, fuch. 
as is ufed for wheating flour •, or, if your ftock 
of birds do not require fo great a quantity, take 
in the following proportion : 
Or the faiu meal, two pounds, with one 
pound of the bed: fweet almonds blanched ; beat 
thefe well in a mortar, as fine as poffible ; then 
put four ounces of frefh butter, that is entirely 
without any fait, into a fauce-pan well tin- 
ned ; mix all together, and let the pan ove-r 
a clear fire, that the pafte may not finell of 
fmoak, continually ftirring of it whilft it ltands 
Upon the fire ■, then take four yolks of eggs, 
and a little laflfon : when the butter is all melt- 
ed, having fomc virgin’s honey ready, drop in 
fome by degrees, continually barring it, to keen 
it from burning, and that all the ingredients 
may incorporate) then ftrain it through a drain- 
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