Cut the bacon into thin slices, trim away the rusty parts, and cut off the rind.

Cut it into thin slices, take off the rind, and broil over a nice clear fire; turn it 2 or 3 times, and serve very hot.

As bacon is frequently excessively salt, let it be soaked in warm water for an hour or two previous to dressing it; then pare off the rusty parts, and scrape the under-side and rind as clean as possible.

Cut off the rind, and if the ham should be particularly hard and salt, it will be found an improvement to soak it for about 10 minutes in hot water, and then dry it in a cloth.

INGREDIENTS.1 lb. of pork, fat and lean, without skin or gristle; 1 lb. of lean veal, 1 lb. of beef suet, 1/2 lb. of bread crumbs, the rind of 1/2 lemon, 1 small nutmeg, 6 sage-leaves, 1 teaspoonful of pepper, 2 teaspoonfuls of salt, 1/2 teaspoonful of savory, 1/2 teaspoonful of marjoram.

INGREDIENTS.2 chickens; seasoning to taste of salt, white pepper, and cayenne; 2 blades of pounded mace, egg and bread crumbs, clarified butter, 1 strip of lemon-rind, 2 carrots, 1 onion, 2 tablespoonfuls of mushroom ketchup, thickening of butter and flour, 1 egg.

His character was like the bark of the cinnamon, a rough and astringent rind without, and an intense sweetness within.

He shows them the rind, conceals the sap; by this means he keeps them the longer, himself the better.

A marginal note of W. P. would serve for a winding-sheet for that man's works, like thick-skinned fruits are all rind, fit for nothing but the author's fate, to be pared in a pillory.

The Khan was now seated with his courtiers about him, and was carving the rind of a pomegranate into patterns, like a man with his thoughts far away.

For the spleen, maidenhair, finger-fern, dodder of thyme, hop, the rind of ash, betony.

The prickles, the acrid rind, the bitterness or sourness, are transformed into the ripe fruit, and the foreknowledge of this gives the name and virtue of the ripe fruit to the fruit yet green on the bough.

Never before has Germany been very successful in her colonisation; but if complete dominationthe sucking of a country till it is a mere rind of itself, and yet at the same time full to bursting of Prussian ichormay be taken as Germany's equivalent of colonisation, then indeed we must be forced to recognise her success.

The mango is a fruit resembling an apple, and of the size of a man's fist; both the rind and the fruit itself are yellow.

The personally-conducted party pursued the conductor about the deck with inquiries, in a manner that suggested to Helen's mind the rather vulgar image of hens with a piece of bacon rind, until at last he went into hiding below.

How could the thin upper crust of the earththe mere rind three inches thickbe expected to yield crop after crop for a hundred years?

BAKED PUMPKIN.Wash the pumpkin well on the outside, divide into quarters if small, into sixths or eighths if large; remove the seeds but not the rind.

Serve in the rind, dishing it out by spoonfuls.

SWEET POTATO PIE.Bake sufficient sweet potatoes to make a pint of pulp when rubbed through a colander; add a pint of rich milk, a scant cup of sugar, salt if desired, the yolks of two eggs, and a little grated lemon rind for flavor.

Beat the yolks of the eggs until very light and thick, then add the sugar little by little, beating it in thoroughly; add the lemon juice and the grated rind.

Sauces for puddings may be similarly flavored, by steeping cocoanut or bits of orange or lemon rind in the milk.

Beat together one egg, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, and a little lemon rind for flavoring.

Add the yellow rind and a tablespoonful of sugar; pour over all a quart of boiling water.

What gives that lustre to the eye, that ripple to the hair, that faultless mould to the features, that mellowness to the skinlike the ruddy rind of the pomegranatethose rounded limbs that move with sovereign easethat step, as of gods treading the earth?

Roland, in answer, demonstrated that an almond is but one fruit, although composed of rind, shell, and kernel; that a harp is but one instrument, although it consists of wood, strings, and harmony.