[A] The author would add a small proportion of water to the pieces of
fat. It facilitates the melting process, preserves the color, and will
all evaporate in cooking.
[B] The addition of the slice of pork is quite indispensable for veal
chops _en papillote_, but it is often omitted when the chops are of
mutton.
[C] If the fowls are not tender, add a little water, and stew them
slowly until they are.--ED.
[D] The macaroni may be boiled in stock.
[E] The brandy, wine, or lemon-juice may be omitted if preferred.
[F] Francatelli used three oblong tin pans, three inches deep, instead
of plates, the under and upper pans serving to hold the pounded
ice.--ED.
[G] Four cupfuls of sifted flour are a pound; one cupful of lard or
butter is half a pound.
[H] If fresh lemons can not be obtained, the extract of lemon may be
used. Do not let the pies remain in the tins.
[I] Five or six minutes will suffice for baking them.--ED.
[J] A pound of sugar is three cupfuls; half a pound of flour, two and
a half cupfuls--_i. e._, the ordinary sized kitchen cup. Do not try to
make half the quantity.
[K] Dr. Franklin admits that Valentine’s extract is more nutritive than
that of Liebig. I have heard other physicians say that they considered
the Valentine much preferable to the Liebig extract, abandoning the use
of the latter for the former.--ED.
[L] Foreigners consider it vulgar to eat corn from the cob, although
quite elegant to eat asparagus with their fingers.--ED.