The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesEaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
Cooking, English; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics
HIND QUARTER OF PIG. To dress this joint lamb fashion, take off the
skin, roast it, and serve it up with mint sauce. A leg of lamb stuffed
like a leg of pork, and roasted, with drawn gravy, is very good. A loin
of mutton also, stuffed like a hare, and basted with milk. Put gravy in
the dish, served with currant jelly, or any other sauce.
HIVING OF BEES. When it is intended to introduce a swarm of bees into a
new hive, it must be thoroughly cleaned, and the inside rubbed with
virgin wax. A piece of nice honeycomb, made of very white wax, and about
nine inches long, should be hung on the cross bars near the top of the
hive, to form a kind of nest for the bees, and excite them to continue
their work. The new hive being thus prepared, is then to be placed under
an old one, before the bees begin to swarm, in such a manner as to be
quite close, and to leave the bees no passage except into the new hive.
As these insects generally work downwards, they will soon get into their
new habitation; and when it is occupied by one half of the swarm, some
holes must be made in the top of the old hive, and kept covered till the
proper time of making use of them. Preparation being thus made, take the
opportunity of a fine morning, about eight or nine o'clock, at which
time most of the bees are out, gathering their harvest. The comb is to
be cut through by means of a piece of iron wire, and the old hive
separated from the new one. An assistant must immediately place the
cover, which should be previously fitted, upon the top of the new one.
The old hive is then to be taken to the distance of twenty or thirty
yards, and placed firm upon a bench or table, but so as to leave a free
space both above and below. The holes at the top being opened, one of
the new boxes is to be placed on the top of the old hive, having the
cover loosely fastened on it; and is to be done in such a manner, by
closing the intervals between them with linen cloths, that the bees on
going out by the holes on the top of the old hive can only go into the
new one. But in order to drive the bees into the new hive, some live
coals must be placed under the old one, upon which some linen may be
thrown, to produce a volume of smoke; and the bees feeling the
annoyance, will ascend to the top of the old hive, and at length will go
through the holes into the new one. When they have nearly all entered,
it is to be removed gently from the old hive, and placed under the box
already mentioned, the top or cover having been taken off. If it should
appear the next morning that the two boxes, of which the new hive is now
composed, do not afford sufficient room for the bees, a third or fourth
box may be added, under the others, as their work goes on, changing them
from time to time so long as the season permits the bees to gather wax
and honey. When a new swarm is to be hived, the boxes prepared as above
and proportioned to the size of the swarm, are to be brought near the
place where the bees have settled.
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