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CHAPTER XXXVI: Dash

Cock-a-Leekie (Scotch recipe). 1 fowl, 4 pounds beef, 12 leeks, Dash pepper, 1 tablespoonful salt, 5 quarts water.

Truss a fowl as for boiling, put it into a stewpan with a piece of lean beef, leeks cut in pieces an inch long, rejecting the coarser green part, a little pepper and salt, and water.

Cover the stewpan closely and allow its contents to stew slowly four hours; then place the fowl in a tureen; remove the beet, pour the soup and leeks over it, and serve.

Friar's Chicken (French recipe). 1 knuckle veal, 2 turnips, 2 carrots, 3 onions, 4 sprigs sweet herbs, 1 quart cream, 6 yolks eggs, 2 chickens.