with oil, vinegar, salt and
mustard.

FRIED TENCH. Scale and clean the fish well, dry and lay them before the
fire, dust them with flour, and fry them in dripping or hog's lard.
Serve with crisped parsley, and plain butter. Perch, trout, and grayling
may be done the same.

FRIED TURBOT. Cut a small turbot across in ribs, dry and flour it, put
it into a fryingpan, and cover it with boiling lard. Fry it brown, and
drain it. Clean the pan, put in a little wine, an anchovy, salt, nutmeg,
and a little ginger. Put in the fish, and stew it till the liquor is
half wasted. Then take it out, put in some butter rolled in flour, with
a minced lemon, and simmer them to a proper thickness. Rub a hot dish
with a piece of shalot, lay the turbot in the dish, and pour the sauce
over it.

FRIED VENISON. Cut the meat into slices, fry it of a bright brown, and
keep it hot before the fire. Make gravy of the bones, add a little
butter rolled in flour, stir it in the pan till it is thick and brown,
and put in some port and lemon juice. Warm the venison in it, put in the
dish, and pour the sauce over it. Send up currant jelly in a glass.

FRITTERS. Make them of pancake batter, dropped in small quantities into
the pan: or put apple into batter, pared and sliced, and fry some of it
with each slice. Currants, or very thinly-sliced lemon, make an
agreeable change. Fritters for company should be served on a folded
napkin in the dish. Any sort of sweetmeat, or ripe fruit, may be made
into fritters.

FRONTINIAC. Boil twelve pounds of loaf sugar, and six pounds of raisins
cut small, in six gallons of water. When the liquor is almost cold, put
in half a peck of elder flowers; and the next day six spoonfuls of the
syrup of lemons, and four of yeast. Let it stand two days, put it into a
barrel that will just hold it, and bottle it after it has stood about
two months.

FROST AND BLIGHTS. When a fruit tree is in full blossom, the best way to
preserve it from frost and blights is to twine a rope upon its branches,
and bring the end of it into a pail of water. If a light frost happen in
the night, the tree will not be affected by it; but an ice will be
formed on the surface of the water, in which the end of the rope is
immersed. This experiment may easily be tried on wall fruit, and has
been found to answer. If trees be infected with an easterly blight, the
best way is to fumigate them with brimstone strewed on burning charcoal:
this will