IE. Scald and blanch some broad beans, and cut in some young
carrots, turnips, artichoke bottoms, mushrooms, peas, onions, parsley,
celery, or any of these. Make the whole into a nice stew, with some
good veal gravy. Bake a crust over a dish, with a little lining round
the edge, and a cup turned up to keep it from sinking. When baked, open
the lid, and pour in the stew.

VEGETABLE SOUP. Pare and slice five or six cucumbers, add the inside of
as many cos-lettuces, a sprig or two of mint, two or three onions, some
pepper and salt, a pint and a half of young peas, and a little parsley.
Put these into a saucepan with half a pound of fresh butter, to stew in
their own liquor half an hour, near a gentle fire. Pour on the
vegetables two quarts of boiling water, and stew them two hours. Rub a
little flour in a tea-cupful of water, boil it with the rest nearly
twenty minutes, and serve it.--Another way. Peel and slice six large
onions, six potatoes, six carrots, and four turnips; fry them in half a
pound of butter, and pour on them four quarts of boiling water. Toast a
crust of bread quite brown and hard, but do not burn it; add it to the
above, with some celery, sweet herbs, white pepper, and salt. Stew it
all together gently four hours, and strain it through a coarse cloth.
Put in a sliced carrot, some celery, and a small turnip, and stew them
in the soup. An anchovy, and a spoonful of ketchup, may be added if
approved.

VEGETABLE SYRUP. To a pint of white wine vinegar, put two pounds of the
best brown sugar. Boil them to a syrup; and when quite cold, add two
table-spoonfuls of paregoric elixir, which is made in the following
manner. Steep in a pint of brandy a dram of purified opium, a dram of
flowers of benjamin, and two scruples of camphor, adding a dram of the
oil of anniseed. Let it stand ten days, occasionally shaking it up, and
then strain it off. This added to the above composition, forms the
celebrated Godbold's Vegetable Syrup. The paregoric elixir taken by
itself, a tea-spoonful in half a pint of white wine whey or gruel at bed
time, is an agreeable and effectual medicine for coughs and colds. It is
also excellent for children who have the hooping cough, in doses of from
five to twenty drops in a little water, or on a small piece of sugar.
The vegetable syrup is chiefly intended for consumptive cases.

VELVETS. When the pile of velvet requires to be raised, it is only
necessary to warm a smoothing iron, to c