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made Plain and Easy.

To melt butter.

IN melting of butter you must be very careful; let your saucepan be well tinned, take a spoonful of cold water, a little dust of flour; and your butter cut to pieces: be sure to keep shaking your pan one way, for fear it should oil; when it is all melted, let it boil, and it will be smooth and fine. A silver pan is best, if you have one.

To roast geese, turkies, &c.

WHEN you roast a goose, turky, or fowls of any fort, take care to singe them with a piece of white paper, ana baste them with a piece of butter; drudge them with a little flour, and when the smoke begins to draw to the fire, and they look plump, baste them again, and drudge them with a little flour and take them up.

Sauce for a goofe.

FOR a goose make a little good gravy, and put it into a bason by itself, and fome apple-sauce in another.

Sauce for a turky.

FOR a turky good gravy in the dish, and either bread or onion-fauce in a bafon.

Sauce for fowls.

TO fowls you should put good gravy in the dish, and either bread or egg-fauce in a bafon.

Sauce for ducks.

FOR ducks a little gravy in the disb, and onion in a cup, if liked.

Sauce for pheasants and partridges.

PHEASANTS and partridges should have gravy in the dish, and bread-fauce in a cup.

Sauce for larks.

LARKS, roast them, and for sauce have crumbs of bread; done thus: take a saucepan or stew«pan and fome butter;

when melted, have a good piece of crumb of bread, and rub it

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