r Cook
introduced by Damoxenus, when asked, 'what harmony there was in meats?'
'the very same,' says he, 'as the 3d, 5th, and 8th have to one another
in music: the main skill lies in this, not to mingle' ('_sapores minime
consentientes_'). 'Tastes not well joined, inelegant,' as our Paradisian
bard directs Eve, when dressing a sallet for her angelical guest, in
MILTON'S _Paradise Lost_."

He gives the following receipt for the oxoleon:--

"Take of clear and perfectly good oyl-olive three parts; of sharpest
vinegar (sweetest of all condiments, for it incites appetite, and causes
hunger, which is the best sauce), limon, or juice of orange, one part;
and therein let steep some slices of horseradish, with a little salt.
Some, in a separate vinegar, gently bruise a pod of Ginny pepper, and
strain it to the other; then add as much mustard as will lie upon a
half-crown piece. Beat and mingle these well together with the yelk of
two new-laid eggs boiled hard, and pour it over your sallet, stirring it
well together. The super-curious insist that the knife with which sallet
herb is cut must be of silver. Some who are husbands of their oyl, pour
at first the oyl alone, as more apt to communicate and diffuse its
slipperiness, than when it is mingled and beaten with the acids, which
they pour on last of all; and it is incredible how small a quantity of
oyl thus applied is sufficient to imbue a very plentiful assembly of
sallet herbs."

_Obs._ Our own directions to prepare and dress salads will be found
under No. 372.

FOOTNOTES:

[155-*] "Next to bread, there is no vegetable article, the preparation
of which, as food, deserves to be more attended to, than the
potato."--Sir JOHN SINCLAIR'S _Code of Health_, vol. i. p. 354.

"By the _analysis of potato_, it appears that 16 ounces contained 11-1/2
ounces of water, and the 4-1/2 ounces of solid parts remaining, afforded
scarce a drachm of earth."--PARMENTIER'S _Obs. on Nutritive Vegetables_,
8vo. 1783, p. 112.

[155-+] Or the small ones will be done to pieces before the large ones
are boiled enough.

[159-*] Sweet potatoes, otherwise called Carolina potatoes, are the
roots of the _Convolvulus batatas_, a plant peculiar to and principally
cultivated in America. It delights in a warm climate, but is raised in
Connecticut, New-York, and all the states of the Union south of
New-York. It is an excellent vegetable for the dinner-table, and is
brought on boiled. It has an advantag