Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches, By Eliza Leslie
Although title page reads: THE HOUSE BOOK. OR
A MANUAL OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY BY MISS LESLIE.
LARDED CALF'S LIVER
TAKE a calf's liver and wash it well. not heard that way before and not to be
Cut into long slips the fat of some bacon or salt pork, repeated or ever be
remembered and insert it all through the surface of the liver by means of a
larding-pin. one that always had been a household word Put the liver into
a pot used in speaking of the ordinary with a table-spoonful of lard,
everyday recurrences of living, a little water, not newly chosen or long
considered, and a few tomatas, or a matter for comment afterward, or some
tomata catchup who would ever have thought it was the one; adding one
large or two small onions minced fine, saying itself from the beginning
through and some sweet marjoram leaves rubbed very fine. all its uses and
circumstances to The sweet marjoram will crumble more easily utter at last
that meaning of its own if you first dry it before the fire on a plate. Having
put in all these ingredients, for which it had long been the only word set
the pot in hot coals in the corner of the fire-place, though it seems now that
any word would do and keep it stewing, regularly and slowly, for four
hours. At the last minute a word is waiting Send the liver to table with the
gravy round it.
W.S. Merwin, “Term”