Culinary Maxims.
Much taste, much waste. Fat hens lay few eggs. Quick at meat, quick at work. Handsome apples are sometimes sour. The unbidden guest ie ever a pest. It is a bad mouthful that chokes. Noble housekeepers need no doors. Fat pastures make fat venison. Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. Live on hope and die of hunger. The biggest fields grow not the best corn. A short mass and a long dinner. Cheese and bread make the cheeks red. Long fasting is no economy of food. As a man eats, so he works. While the pots boils, friendship blooms. Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. Unlaid eggs are a long time becoming chickens. A guest ami fish spoil with three days’ keeping. Of what use is it that the cow gives plenty of milk if she kick over the pail ? He who is over-nice is he who misses many a slice. .Good wine debilitates the purse, and bad the stomach.—Lucullus, in April Table Talk.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 907, 19 July 1889, Page 5
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