“An excellent bread, it is said, can be made of this flour, at half the cost of wheaten bread.
“Heat having been applied in these preparations, the articles will keep unchanged for years, and on board ship, to China and back; rats, mice, worms, and insects do not infect or destroy this flour.
“Simply mixed with cold water, they are in ten minutes fit for food, when fire and all other resource may be wanted; and twelve ounces are sufficient for a day’s sustenance, in case of necessity.
“The physicians and surgeons in the hospitals, in cases of great debility of the stomach, have employed these preparations with advantage.
“The point of this discovery is, the cheapness of preparation, and the conversion of a surplus growth of potatoes into a keeping stock, in an elegant, portable, and salubrious form.”
Salad or piquante Sauce for cold Meat, Fish, &c.—(No. 453.) See also [No. 372].
Pound together
- An ounce of scraped horseradish,
- Half an ounce of salt,
- A table-spoonful of made mustard, [No. 370],
- Four drachms of minced eschalots, [No. 409],
- Half a drachm of celery-seed, [No. 409],
- And half ditto of Cayenne, [No. 404],
Adding gradually a pint of burnet ([No. 399]), or tarragon vinegar ([No. 396]), and let it stand in a jar a week, and then pass it through a sieve.