- Flour mixed with grated bread.
- Sweet herbs dried and powdered, and mixed with grated bread.
- Lemon-peel dried and pounded, or orange-peel, mixed with flour.
- Sugar finely powdered, and mixed with pounded cinnamon, and flour or grated bread.
- Fennel seeds, corianders, cinnamon, and sugar, finely beaten and mixed with grated bread or flour.
- For young pigs, grated bread or flour, mixed with beaten nutmeg, ginger, pepper, sugar, and yolks of eggs.
- Sugar, bread, and salt mixed.
1086. Estimating Meat for Cooking
The housewife who is anxious to dress no more meat than will suffice for the meal, should remember that beef loses about one pound in four in boiling, but in roasting, loses in the proportion of one pound five ounces, and in baking about two ounces less, or one pound three ounces; mutton loses in boiling about fourteen ounces in four pounds; in roasting, one pound six ounces.