On Good Friday, in the North of England, an herb pudding was formerly eaten, in which the leaves of the passion-dock (Polygonum bistorta) formed the principal ingredient.

It is frequently used, as in the above recipe, as a principal ingredient and basis for other sauces.

CELERY.As in the above recipe, the roots of celery are principally used in England for flavouring soups, sauces, and gravies, and for serving with cheese at the termination of a dinner, and as an ingredient for salad.

Pound each ingredient separately in a mortar, then mix them well together, and store away for use in small bottles.

It is used, as will be seen by many recipes in this book, as an ingredient for flavouring a number of various dishes.

It has an agreeable aromatic flavour, and forms an ingredient in soups, and sometimes is used in spring salads.

This flavouring ingredient, if genuine and well prepared, is one of the most useful store sauces to the experienced cook, and no trouble should be spared in its preparation.

The quantities of oil and vinegar may be increased or diminished according to taste, as many persons would prefer a smaller proportion of the former ingredient.

[Illustration: TARRAGON.] TARRAGON.The leaves of this plant, known to naturalists as Artemisia dracunculus, are much used in France as a flavouring ingredient for salads.

Cut up the meat into small pieces and pound it well, with a little butter, in a mortar; add a seasoning of cayenne and mace, and be very particular that the latter ingredient is reduced to the finest powder.

The ingredient best suited for a poultice is that which retains heat the longest; of these ingredients, the best are linseedmeal, bran, and bread.

Wetting with one drop the test-stone attached to my watch-chain, it presented the local discoloration indicating the narcotic poison which is the chief ingredient of this compound.

His brother Bob (of recenter memory) who was his shadow in every thing while he lived, and dwindled into less than a shadow afterwardswas a gentleman with a little stronger infusion of the latter ingredient; that was all.

His brother Bob (of recenter memory) who was his shadow in every thing while he lived, and dwindled into less than a shadow afterwardswas a gentleman with a little stronger infusion of the latter ingredient; that was all.

But these Barbary towns had lost much of their freshness or novelty to me, and novelty is the greatest ingredient of our pleasure in foreign travel.

He makes pedigrees as apothecaries do medicines when they put in one ingredient for another that they have not by them; by this means he often makes incestuous matches, and causes the son to many the mother.

But Rochefoucauld had to play the cynic, and a dash of cynicism adds a fine ingredient to a maxim.

"In the same connection he characterizes nitrogen as a substance 'not condensible under fifty atmospheres,' leaving the reader to infer that the preceding ingredient on the list, oxygen, is condensible (liquefiable) within that limit of pressure, and that nitrogen becomes liquid at or above it; whereas neither oxygen nor nitrogen has ever yet been compressed into a liquid, although a force of more than fifty times

Almost all the Ah-te-soo-kaum I have heard, has had more or less of this ingredient.

Hearing us speak of mosaic granite, a rock occurring in Woodbridge, to which we had given this name, from the checker-like arrangement of its felspathic ingredient, he concluded that we attributed its formation to the era of Moses, and asked Percival what evidence he had for such an opinion.

Variableness must ever be the characteristic of a currency of which the precious metals are not the chief ingredient, or which can be expanded or contracted without regard to the principles that regulate the value of those metals as a standard in the general trade of the world.

Mr. WILSON observed, that less umbrage would perhaps be taken against an admission of the slaves into the rule of representation, if it should be so expressed as to make them indirectly only an ingredient in the rule, by saying that they should enter into the rule of taxation; and as representation was to be according to taxation, the end would be equally attained.

"Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil," says Shakspeare.

The siliceous ingredient is calcined flint; and in some of the porcelain works, (particularly, I believe, those at Worcester,) the soapstone from the Lizard-point, in Cornwall, is employed.

If it is desirable to use with eggs any ingredient which requires a lengthy cooking, it is much better to cook it partially before adding the eggs.