very clean, then gut and wash them, dry them
in a cloth, score them on the sides, rub them with butter, sprinkle salt
over them, and broil them of a fine brown; boil sorrel, chervil, onion
and parsley, chop it fine; melt a piece of butter in cream sufficient
for your sauce, then put in your herbs, season it with salt, pepper, and
a little nutmeg, toss it up together, and pour over your fish; or you
may serve it with a ragout of mushrooms, or a brown sauce with capers,
garnished with lemon.

SEVILLE ORANGE POSSET. Squeeze Seville orange or lemon juice into a
glass dish, or mix them together if preferred, and sweeten it well with
fine sugar. Then warm some cream over the fire, but do not let it boil.
Put it into a teapot and pour it into the juice, holding the teapot up
very high, that it may froth and curdle the better. Instead of cream,
milk thickened with one or two yolks of eggs may be used, if more
convenient.

SHALOT. As the habits of growth in roots of this nature differ greatly
in the different sorts, some requiring to be nearly or quite on the
surface of the ground, while others stand in need of being a
considerable depth below it, which has not been well attended to in the
garden culture of such roots; it may be readily supposed that these have
considerable influence and effect on the growth of such root crops. In
consequence of finding that crops of this root generally became mouldy
and perished, and that they were usually planted, from the directions of
garden cultivators, at the depth of two or three inches from the
surface; the injury, failure, and destruction of such crops, were
naturally ascribed to this cause. A few bulbs or bunches of this root
were consequently divided, as far as possible, into single buds or
bulbs, and planted upon or rather above the surface of the ground, some
very rich soil being placed underneath them, and the mould on each side
raised to support them, until they became firmly rooted. This mould was
then removed by means of a hoe, and the use of the watering-pot, and the
bulbs of course left wholly out of the ground. The growth of the plants
had now so near a resemblance to that of the common onion, as not
readily to be distinguished from it, until their irregularity of form,
the consequence of the numerous germs within each bulb, became evident.
The forms of the bulbs, however, continued constantly different from all
those raised in the ordinary method, being much more broad