The Market Assistant: Containing a Brief Description of Every Article of Human Food Sold in the Public Markets of the Cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; Including the Various Domestic and Wild Animals, Poultry, Game, Fish, Vegetables, Fruits &c., &c. with Many Curious Incidents and Anecdotes |
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The Market Assistant: Containing a Brief Description of Every Article of ... Thomas Farrington De Voe No preview available - 2019 |
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anal fin animal appearance April August baron of beef beef bird blue-fish boiled brisket brought butchers called caught chickory codfish color Commercial Advertiser common considered cooked corned corned beef cultivated dark delicate dish dorsal fin duck early eaten eating epicure excellent fall months feet fins fish flavor flesh four fowl fresh fresh-water fruit green half head hundred juicy July June kets killed kind known lamb large numbers Long Island mackerel meat mouth mutton noticed November occasionally October oyster pectoral fins pickled piece plant plentiful pork pot-herb pounds weight prepared quantity ribs ripe River roasted salad salt says season seldom September shad side sirloin skin sold sometimes soups Spanish mackerel species specimen steaks stewing sweet tail taken taste tender usually found varieties veal vegetable venison weighed wholesome winter York young
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Page 147 - Kingdom shall on or before the first day of February and the first day of August...
Page 147 - Pheasant between the First Day of February and the First Day of October in any Year...
Page 19 - Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Page 100 - You shall swear by custom of confession, That you ne.er made nuptial transgression ; Nor since you were married man and wife, By household brawls or contentious strife, Or otherwise at bed or at board, Offended each other in deed or in word ; Or since the parish clerk said Amen...
Page 282 - As the twig is bent the tree's inclined,' is an old saw as applicable to the common mind of the people in regard to the food they eat as to anything else. When I saw the natives actually feasting on the raw flesh of the whale, I thought to myself, Why cannot I do the same ? and the response to my question came rushing through my brain, independent of prejudice — because of my education, because of the customs of my people from time imm'emorial.
Page 202 - We set the last spring some twenty acres of Indian corn, and sowed some six acres of barley and pease ; and according to the manner of the Indians, we manured our ground with herrings, or rather shads, which we have in great abundance, and take with great ease at our doors.
Page 115 - THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter ; The haunch was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy...
Page 105 - They are generally divided into two parts ; a strip is taken from each half on the back of the skin where the hump was, and the two halves or sides are sewed together, after they are dressed, with thread made of the sinews of the animal, and then the robe is ready for market One of the most useful applications of buffalo meat consists in the preparation of pemmican — an article of food of the greatest importance, from its portability and nutricious qualities.
Page 106 - Arctic expedition, found it necessary to carry with him pemmican from England. This he prepared by taking a round or buttock of beef, cut into thin steaks, from which the fat and membraneous parts were pared away, and dried in a kiln until the fibre of the meat became friable. It was then ground in a malt-mill, and mixed with nearly an equal weight of beef suet, or lard. This completed the preparation of the plain pemmican; but to a portion raisins were added, and another portion was sweetened with...
Page 187 - March, or any salmon trout, or any muscalonge, between the first day of December and the first day of April, in each and every year, under a fine of five dollars for each fish so taken or had in possession.