Among other popular remedies were beetroot, box leaves, cabbage, cucumbers, black currants, digitalis, and euphorbia.

191 Beetroot 1094 Boiled 1094 Pickled 369 Benton sauce 370 Bequests, legacies, &c. 2744-9 Beverages, general observations on 1789, 1806 Bills of fare, for January pp.

PICKLED BEETROOT.

The eggs may be ornamented with a little dot of radishes or beetroot on the point.

INGREDIENTS,Beetroot; boiling water.

Beetroot is more frequently served cold than hot: when the latter mode is preferred, melted butter should be sent to table with it.

If to be served hot, remove the peel quickly, cut the beetroot into thick slices, and send to table melted butter.

Small beetroot, 1-1/2 to 2 hours; large, 2-1/2 to 3 hours.

SALADS.Salads are raw vegetables, of which, among us, the lettuce is the most generally used; several others, however, such as cresses, celery, onions, beetroot, &c., are occasionally employed.

Her face was the colour of beetroot with temper, and you could 'ave heard her breath fifty yards away.

Spring Vegetable Soup. Have an assortment of different young vegetables comprising as many distinct and bright colours as possiblegreen peas, French beans trimmed and cut diamond-wise, cauliflower in tiny sprigs, carrots, turnips, cooked beetroot stamped in fancy shapes or cut in small dice, and leeks, chives, or spring onions shred finely.

It may also be garnished with slices of hard-boiled egg, beetroot, fried tomatoes, &c. Kedgeree.

[Footnote: See pastry.], and fill in with lentils cooked as above, and tomatoes, or any vegetables, such as carrots, turnips, cauliflower, beetroot, &c., to keep the mixture from being too heavy, for whatever may be thought to the contrary, there is a much larger proportion of solid nutriment to the bulk in pulse foods than in the "too, too solid flesh" which we esteem so highly.

Serve with garnish of beetroot or tomatoes.

Fried beetroot may be used instead of tomatoes, and crushed vermicelli or bread crumbs instead of tapioca.

Many variations will suggest themselvescauliflower, parsnips, vegetable marrow, sliced tomatoes, beetroot, &c., instead of the other vegetables.

Some chopped tomatoes, beetroot, or mushrooms may be added.

A noise arose of earnest men Refusing imitation duck; It was a dreadful moment when The Beetroot-eaters struck, And all around untasted stood Rations of Mr. Kilo's favourite food.

They seemed in desperate hurry and scratched up mounds of loose earth, like children building sand castles, and jumped down into wayside ditches which they used as cover, and lay on their stomachs in the beetroot fields.

The beetroot fields spurted up earth, and great holes were being dug by unseen ploughs.

Cut it in slices, also slice some beetroot or cucumber and put them in a saucepan with a little gravy which need not be strong, two table-spoonsful of vinegar, one of oil, pepper, salt, a little chopped lettuce and a few peas, simmer till the vegetables and meat are sufficiently dressed.

Remove the bones, gristle, &c., from a nice piece of veal, the breast is the best part for the purpose; season the meat well with chopped herbs, mace, pepper, and salt, then lay between the veal slices of smoked tongue variegated with beetroot, chopped parsley, and hard yolks of eggs, roll it up tightly in a cloth, simmer for some hours till tender; when done, it should have a weight laid on it to press out the liquor.

It enjoys on the whole a fine climate, which favours the vineyards in the centre (the finest in the world), the olive groves in the S., and the wheat and beetroot region in the N.

TROPPAU (21), capital of Austrian Silesia, 184 m. E. of Vienna; contains a castle, gymnasium, and an extensive library; manufactures linen and woollen textiles, beetroot sugar, &c. TROSSACHS, a romantic pass in the Perthshire Highlands, 8 m. W. of Callander, stretching for about a mile between Lochs Katrine and Achray, is charmingly wooded; is celebrated by Sir Walter Scott in his "Lady of the Lake.

If after straining off the soup the remaining beetroot is not too much boiled away, it may be chopped fine with a little onion, vinegar and dripping, flavored with pepper and salt, and used as a vegetable.