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Vanilla Ice Cream

-INGREDIENTS for dish for 3 persons.
-INGREDIENTS for dish for 3 persons.

INGRE- DIENTS for 1 quart.-1 pint of cream, 1/2 pint of milk, 1 pod of vanilla, 1 lb. of sugar, juice of 1 lemon, yolks of 2 eggs. AVERAGE COST, 2s.

Pound the pod in a mortar, with the sugar, press it through a sieve, then place in a stewpan, with the milk and eggs, and stir over a gentle fire till the mixture thickens like custard; add the cream and lemon-juice, then strain and freeze.

TIME.-25 minutes to freeze.

SEASONABLE at any time.

Veal, Baked. (Cold Meat Cookery.) -INGREDIENTS for dish for 3 persons. lb. of cold roast veal, a few slices of bacon, 1 pint of bread-crumbs, pint of good veal gravy, 1/2 teaspoonful of minced lemon-peel, 1 blade of pounded mace, cayenne and salt to taste, 4 eggs. AVERAGE COST, exclusive of the cold veal and gravy, 9d.

Mince finely the veal and bacon; add the bread-crumbs, gravy, and seasoning, and stir these ingredients well together. Beat up the eggs thoroughly; add these, mix the whole well together, put in a dish, and bake from 3/4 to 1 hour. When liked, a little good gravy may be served in a tureen as an accompaniment.

TIME. From to 1 hour.

SEASONABLE from March to October.

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