Cut off the stalks, and either halve or cut the lettuces into small pieces.

Take them up with a slice, halve, and, should they be very large, quarter them.

Peel the apples, halve them, and take out the cores; put them into a stewpan with the butter, and strew sufficient sifted sugar over to sweeten them nicely, and add the minced lemon-peel.

Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes; halve the apricots, take out the stones, and simmer them in the syrup until tender; watch them carefully, and take them up the moment they are done, for fear they break.

Make a nice smooth, batter in the same manner as directed in recipe No. 1393, and skin, halve, and stone the peaches, which should be quite ripe; dip them in the batter, and fry the pieces in hot lard or clarified dripping, which should be brought to the boiling-point before the peaches are put in.

Pare the pears, halve them, remove the cores, and leave the stalks on; put them into a lined saucepan with the above ingredients, and let them simmer very gently until tender, which will be in from 3 to 4 hours, according to the quality of the pears.

Obtain a good sweet pumpkin; halve it, take out the seeds, and pare off the rind; cut it into neat slices, or into pieces about the size of a five-shilling piece.

My wounded heart in armour fancy-wrought: For, lacking thee, so low my state is brought, That Love hath stolen all my strength away; Whence, when I fain would halve my griefs, they weigh With double sorrow, and I sink to nought.

Men of his wandering habit know too well what a brave, good-tempered wife means to encourage her to take long chances; for although there are lots of women who would like to wander and accept the world's pot luck, there are precious few capable of doing it without doubling a fellow's trouble; when they know how to halve the trouble and double the fun they're priceless.

Halve the income of a rich man, you oblige him to retrench; he must give up his yacht, his carriage, or other luxuries; but such retrenchment, though it may wound his pride, will not cause him great personal discomfort.

But halve the income of a well-paid mechanic, and you reduce him and his family at once to the verge of starvation.

You had given five; you halve itsurely you can get that!

We will halve it, or we will take a bit of it, as a token, rather than wrong her.

It is your duty, sir, as my husband.' 'Is it my duty to halve my burdens as well as my joys?

Father said he had a fancy to be prime fooler in his own establishment, but liking the poor knave's wit, civilitie, and good sense, he agreed to halve the businesse, he continuing the fooling, and Pattesonfor that is the simple good fellow's namereceiving the salary.

True, the means of communication are more rapid the line is more direct, and by using the Grand Transasiatic which puts Pekin within a fortnight of the Prussian capital, the baron might halve the old time by Suez and Singaporebut

Well, halve that and add two.

At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him: for he seemed to speak his words by halve.

In our part of the world, where monogamy is in force, to marry means to halve one's rights and to double one's duties.

Give him a crust, he said, and somebody to halve it witha home-made crust baked by a wife.

Pare, halve, remove seeds, and place in a shallow earthen dish, with a cup of water to each two quarts of fruit.

Pare with a silver knife, halve or quarter, remove the seeds and drop into a pan of cold water to prevent discoloration.

Pare and quarter the apples, or if small, only halve them, and cook gently in a broad-bottomed closely-covered saucepan, with as little water as possible, till tender, but not broken; then pour the syrup over them, heat all to boiling, and can at once.

Take fresh peaches, pare, halve, and stone them, and place a layer, hollow side up, in the pie.

EGGS SPANISH Boil eggs hard; after cooling, remove shells and halve lengthwise.