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through a colander and shake it into a dish, but do not touch it with your
fingers nor with a spoon.
Beef, veal, mutton, rabbits, fish, may be curried and sent to table with or
without the dish of rice.
Curry powder is used as a fine flavoured seasoning for fish, fowls, steaks,
chops, veal cutlets, hashes, minces, alamodes, turtle soup, and in all rich
dishes, gravies, sauce.
OCHRA AND TOMATOS.
TAKE an equal quantity of each, let the ochra be young, slice it, and skin the
tomatos; put them into a pan without water, add a lump of butter, an onion
chopped fine, some pepper and salt, and stew them one hour.
GUMBO--A WEST INDIA DISH.
GATHER young pods of ochra, wash them clean, and put them in a pan with a little
water, salt and pepper, stew them till tender, and serve them with melted
butter. They are very nutritious, and easy of digestion.
PEPPER POT.
BOIL two or three pounds of tripe, cut it in pieces, and put it on the fire with
a knuckle of veal, and a sufficient quantity of water; part of a pod of pepper,
a little spice, sweet herbs according to your taste, salt, and some dumplins;
stew it till tender, and thicken the gravy with butter and flour.
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