Take the largest shrimps you can get, pick them out of the shells, boil them in a jill of water, or as much water as will cover them according as you have a quantity of shrimps, strain them thro' a hair-sieve, then put to the liquor a little spice, mace, cloves, whole pepper, white wine, white wine vinegar, and a little salt to your taste; boil them very well together, when it is cold put in your shrimps, they are fit for use.

He commanded to his masters of physic and medicines, which were his servants, that they should embalm the body of his father with sweet spices aromatic; which was all done, and then went they sorrowing him forty days.

of cold roast beef, 6 onions, pepper, salt, and mixed spices to taste; 1/2 pint of boiling water, 3 tablespoonfuls of gravy.

] BLACK PEPPER.This well-known aromatic spice is the fruit of a species of climbing vine, and is a native of the East Indies, and is extensively cultivated in Malabar and the eastern islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, and others in the same latitude.

And even when it dies, to pass In odors so divine, As lowly spices gone to sleep, Or amulets of pine.

currants or candied peel, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1/2 teaspoonful mixed spice.

Extend your beames of love to us at full, As the Sunne does unto the Easterne clime, And England may bring forth like India As costly spice, as orientall Jems.

There the tiny bodies, like unexhausted censers, pour out all the stored sweetness they had no time to use above the ground, turning the earth they lie in to precious spices.

It was fortunate for the Filipinos that their islands possessed no wealth in the shape of precious metals or valuable spices.

That soupçon of a brogue which gives so delicate a spice to her English appears also in her French.

There is a spice of arrogance just perceptible, in the conclusion that the Constitution of these United States is so perfect, that one who dislikes it could never be satisfied with any form of government whatever!

More solid and less melodramatic than his other stories, it abounds in picturesque scenes, and has that pleasant spice of adventure that makes for good romance.

They have no cloves or ginger, having been prevented by the Moors, as these could only be procured at Calicut; neither have they any of the lesser spices.

It was a sunny and beautiful day, a specimen of the perfect English weather, just warm enough for comfort,indeed, a little too warm, perhaps, in the noontide sun,yet retaining a mere spice or suspicion of austerity, which made it all the more enjoyable.

CAYENNE.This is the most acrid and stimulating spice with which we are acquainted.

A different source of attraction for the wider circle of readers was supplied by the piquant spice of pessimism.

"What have you been doing to your face?" says Bobby, drawing nigh, and peering with artless interest into the details of my appearance; "it is the color of this" (pointing to a branch of red rhibes, which is hanging its drooped flowers, and joining its potent spice to the other flower-scents).

A little pounded spice may be put in when the flavour is liked; but this ingredient must be added very sparingly.

The modes of preparing other roasts much resembled the present system in their simplicity, with this difference, that strong meats were first boiled to render them tender, and no roast was ever handed over to the skill of the carver without first being thoroughly basted with orange juice and rose water, and covered with sugar and powdered spices.

MAGDALENE, MARY, a Galilæan, belonging to Magdala, on the Sea of Galilee, who followed Christ, stood by the cross, prepared spices for His sepulchre, to whom He first appeared after His resurrection, and who is supposed by some recent critics to be the sole voucher for His rising again.

The operator takes a very sharp bone of an ape, rubs it with a pungent spice, and then pinching up the skin of his son's arm he pierces it with the bone through and through, as a surgeon might introduce a seton.

Chickens as large as sheep, and the rarest spices were served; for the entertainment of the guests, a dwarf crept out of a pie; and when the bowls were too few, for the crowd swelled continuously, the wine was drunk from helmets and hunting-horns.

Again to the genius who grows the sharp spice, But ten times to King Winter who furnishes ice; For to all the mad millions Who dance at cotillons There's naught like the clink and the clank and the crunch Of the ice in the punch.

But I knew to whom I was talking, and that he had no objection to a slight spice of diablerie.

E. [30] This story will be found hereafter very differently related by Cada Mosto himself, but with a sufficient spice of the marvellous.