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sail Bowl, with roasted apples floating in it,
and which is generally ushered in with- great.
ceremony. Shakspeare alludes
to
the Was–
sail Bowl when he· says, in his Midsummer
Night's Dream,
Sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In
very likeness of a roasted crab,
And when she drinks, against her lips I bob,
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
·;
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BROWN BETTY.
Brown Betty does not differ materially
from the preceding; it is said to have de–
rived its name from one of the
fair
sez,
ycleped a bedmaker, who invariably recom–
mended the mixture so named as a never
failing panacea.
Recipe.
Dissolve a quarter of a pound of brown
sugar in one pint of water, slice a lemon