rs more it will be fit to dry. Hang it either in a wood
chimney, or in a dry place, keeping it open with two small
sticks.--Dried salmon is broiled in paper, and only just warmed through.
Egg sauce and mashed potatoes may be eaten with it; or it may be boiled,
especially the part next the head. An excellent dish of dried salmon may
also be made in the following manner. Prepare some eggs boiled hard and
chopped large, pull off some flakes of the fish, and put them both into
half a pint of thin cream, with two or three ounces of butter rubbed in
a tea-spoonful of flour. Skim and stir it till boiling hot, make a wall
of mashed potatoes round the inner edge of a dish, and pour the above
into it.

DRINK FOR THE SICK. Pour a table-spoonful of capillaire, and the same of
good vinegar, into a tumbler of fresh cold water. Tamarinds, currants,
fresh or in jelly, scalded currants or cranberries, make excellent
drinks; with a little sugar or not, as most agreeable. Or put a
tea-cupful of cranberries into a cup of water, and mash them. In the
meantime boil two quarts of water with one large spoonful of oatmeal,
and a bit of lemon peel; then add the cranberries, and as much fine
Lisbon sugar as shall leave a smart flavour of the fruit. Add a quarter
of a pint of sherry, or less, as may be proper: boil all together for
half an hour, and strain off the drink.

DRIPPING, if carefully preserved, will baste every thing as well as
butter, except fowls and game; and for kitchen pies nothing else should
be used. The fat of a neck or loin of mutton makes a far lighter pudding
than suet.

DRIPPING CRUST. Rub a pound of clarified dripping into three pounds of
fine flour, and make it into a paste with cold water. Or make a hot
crust with the same quantity, by melting the dripping in water, and
mixing it hot with the flour.

DROP CAKES. Rub half a pound of butter into a pound of fine flour; mix
it with half a pound of sugar, and the same of currants. Mix it into a
paste, with two eggs, a large spoonful of rose water, brandy, and sweet
wine; and put it on plates ready floured.

DROPSY. Gentle exercise and rubbing the parts affected, are highly
proper in this complaint, and the tepid bath has often procured
considerable relief. The patient ought to live in a warm dry place, not
expose himself to cold or damp air, and wear flannel next the skin.
Vegetable acids, such as vinegar, the juice of lemons and oranges,
diluted with water, sh