Moisten
A mild word to be understood in the sense of Mrs. Gamp, who wished to have the gin-bottle near her on the chimneypiece in order that she might moisten her lips when so dispoged. To moisten is to put upon meat in a stewpan as much liquid-be it water or broth-as will stew it.
MULLAGATAWNY has been already discussed in the article on Gallimawfrey. It may be described as a cock-a-leekie without the leeks and the prunes, but with rice instead, and with spices, which are of the curry class.
Cut down a fowl and boil it for half an hour in two quarts of water, with two apples, four onions and a clove of garlic, which have been cut to dice and fried in butter. Then take a curry powder consisting of coriander, cassia, pepper, and turmeric; mix it with some rice-flour; stir it into the fowl broth; and let all simmer till the soup is smooth and thick as cream. Flavour it with the juice of a lemon; pass it through a strainer, to get rid of onion shreds; serve the fowl and soup in a tureen-and rice either apart, which is the better way, or in the soup.