There is
one sort of it, which is finely variegated, the Leaves appearing like
striped Ribbons. This fine sort is at the Ivy-House at _Hoxton_, where it
may be put in Pots at any time. This, or the other, should be put to a Dog,
at any time, when he is sick, and he will eat it greedily, and cure
himself; but for want of this Help, which favourite Lap-Dogs in _London_
want, they lose their briskness. I believe it would be worth some poor
Woman's while to sell this Grass, in _London_, where so many fine Lap-Dogs
are kept, and indulged so much, that they cannot be taken abroad to search
their Physick; while those of the larger kind take their way abroad, in the
Mornings, at their pleasure. This, Sir, I send you with some other
Receipts, because Dogs are not a little useful about a Farm, and the little
ones are no less agreeable to their Keepers. And I am sure, if you publish
these, they will prove very acceptable to many Ladies, and Gentlemen, who
are Admirers of these faithful Creatures.
_I am, &c._
J. L.
_Lisbon_ or _Portugal-Cakes._ From the same_,_
Take a Pound of double-refin'd Loaf-Sugar beaten fine, and past through a
fine Sieve. Mix this with a Pound of fine Flour; then rub into these a
Pound of fresh or new Butter, till your Sugar and Flour looks like
Bread-Crumbs; then add, two or three spoonfulls of Orange-Flower-Water, and
about ten spoonfuls of Canary-Wine: then beat ten Eggs, till their Whites
are whipt to Snow, and mix the Eggs, with the rest, with a quarter of a
Pound of blanched Almonds beaten in a Marble Mortar, with some Orange-Flower
Water; and when you have butter'd your Pans well, fill them half full with
this Mixture, and bake them, if you make them without Currans, or else fill
the Pans fuller, first plumping the Currans, which should be in proportion,
as you please.
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