s a neat garnish for fish or
lamb chops.

CROSS BUNS. Warm before the fire two pounds and a half of fine flour;
add half a pound of sifted loaf sugar, some coriander seeds, cinnamon
and mace finely pounded. Melt half a pound of butter in half a pint of
milk; after it has cooled, stir in three table-spoonfuls of thick yeast,
and a little salt. Work the whole into a paste, make it into buns, and
cut a cross on the top. Put them on a tin to rise before the fire, brush
them over with warm milk, and bake in a moderate oven.

CROWS. These birds are extremely useful to the farmer, in devouring
multitudes of locusts, caterpillars, and other insects, which are highly
injurious to the crops; but at certain seasons they have become so
numerous, and committed such depredations on the corn fields, that an
act of parliament has been passed for their destruction. The most
successful method is to prepare a kind of table between the branches of
a large tree, with some carrion and other meat, till the crows are
accustomed to resort to the place for food. Afterwards the meat may be
poisoned; and the birds still feeding on it, will be destroyed. The drug
called _nux vomica_ is best adapted to the purpose.

CRUMPETS. Warm before the fire two pounds of fine flour, with a little
salt, and mix it with warm milk and water till it becomes stiff. Work up
three eggs with three spoonfuls of thick yeast, and a cupful of warm
milk and water; put it to the batter, and beat them well together in a
large bowl, with as much milk and water as will make the batter thick.
Set it before the fire to rise, and cover it close. Set on the
fryingpan, rub it over with a bit of butter tied up in muslin, and pour
in as much batter at a time as is sufficient for one crumpet. Let it
bake slowly till it comes to a pale yellow; and when cold, the crumpets
may be toasted and buttered.

CUCUMBERS. The best way of cultivating this delicious vegetable is as
follows. When the plants have been raised on a moderate hot bed, without
forcing them too much, they should be set in the open ground against a
south wall in the latter end of May, and trained upon the wall like a
fruit tree. When they have run up about five feet, they will send forth
blossoms, and the fruit will soon appear. Cucumbers of the slender
prickly sort are to be preferred, and they should not be watered too
much while growing, as it will injure the fruit. The flesh of cucumbers
raised in this way,