set the meat on a
dish, and strain the gravy over it. Serve with currant-jelly sauce. This
is the best way of dressing a shoulder of venison, unless it be very
fat, and then it should be roasted. The bone should be stewed with it.

SHREWSBURY CAKES. Sift one pound of sugar, some pounded cinnamon, and
nutmeg grated, into three pounds of fine flour. Add a little rose water
to three eggs well beaten, and mix with the flour; then pour into it as
much melted butter as will make it a good thickness to roll out. Mould
it well, roll it thin, and cut it into any shape you please.

SHRIMP PIE. Pick a quart of shrimps; if they be very salt, season them
only with mace and a clove or two. Mince two or three anchovies, mix
them with the spice, and then season the shrimps. Put some butter at the
bottom of the dish, and over the shrimps, with a glass of sharp white
wine. The pie will not take long in baking, and the paste must be light
and thin.

SHRIMP SAUCE. If the shrimps be not ready picked pour over a little
water to wash them. Put them to butter melted thick and smooth, give
them one boil, and add the juice of a lemon.

SHRUB. To a gallon of rum, put a quart of the juice of Seville oranges,
and two pounds and a half of loaf sugar beaten fine, and then barrel it.
Steep the rinds of half a dozen oranges in a little rum, the next day
strain it into the vessel, and make it up ten gallons with water that
has been boiled. Stir the liquor twice a day for a fortnight, or the
shrub will be spoiled.

SICK ROOMS. To purify sick rooms from noxious vapours, exhalations, and
all kinds of infected air, put half an ounce of finely pulverized black
oxide of manganese into a saucer, and pour upon it nearly an ounce of
muriatic acid. Place the saucer on the floor of the infected apartment,
leave it and shut the door, and the contagion will be completely
destroyed. Muriatic acid with red oxide of lead will have a similar
effect. Sulphur burnt for the same purpose, has the power of overcoming
the effects of noxious vapours. Shallow vessels filled with lime water
are of great use in absorbing carbonic acid gas, especially in workshops
where charcoal is burnt. Newly prepared charcoal will absorb various
kinds of noxious effluvia, and might be used with considerable advantage
for the purification of privies, if small pieces of it are strewed upon
the floor. Never venture into a sick room if you are in a violent
perspiration (if circumstan