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Or, if you use lemon syrup, which is far more convenient 
to carry, half a tumbler thereof to the above proportions. 
In cold weather, a very palatable hot drink may be made of 
common draft ale, or bottled porter, by simmering it slowly, 
with a few table-spoonsfuls of sugar, one of ginger, and a nut¬ 
meg grated to every quart of malt liquor, and two wine-glasses 
of spirit—gin is the best—to every quart. 
This will neutralize the ascidity of the malt liquor, even if it 
is a little stale and even acid. 
To this end, and for all reasonable wants in the way of cook¬ 
ery, I say, carry with you a few pounds of black tea, a few 
bottles of lemon-syrup, one or two do. of Harvey sauce, pow¬ 
dered ginger, a few nutmegs, some Cayenne pepper, some 
cloves; and, if you are wise, add thereunto a few pounds of 
rice, and the same of pearl-barley, and a flask or two of salad- 
oil. 
With these, if you can persuade your country hostess, instead 
of broiling the five minutes ago slaughtered cock on which you 
are destined to dine, to skin it, quarter it, and stew it for at 
least three hours, with a bit of salt pork, an onion or two, ad 
libitum, and a few handfulls of rice or barley, which last should 
only be boiled one hour, you will feed like a prince, instead of 
breaking all your teeth, and dying afterward of indigestion. 
The same receipt for mutton, lamb, or veal, will be found in ¬ 
valuable to a campaigner—for meat in the country is, nine times 
out of ten, tough. 
As broiled cock is, however, the stand-by—and if you are tra¬ 
velling with your own horses, and arrive late at night, nine 
times out of ten, all that you can get, without waiting longer 
than is agreeable—it is an excellent plan to carry a pair of ten¬ 
der chickens with you from home, ready cleaned and prepared 
for cooking. 
These, when your cocks are killed at night, and ready for 
consignment to the gridiron, you prevail on your hostess to 
substitute, at the last moment; and ca:cry hers forward, to serve 
the same purpose on the following day. This, with a little tact, 
