SCOTCH KAIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1417, 18 January 1879, Page 23

SCOTCH KAIL.

Tho followiog is a good recipe for Scotch kail : — Take one and a half gallon of cold water, two teacupfuls of barley, and about two lb hough ; put them in a saucepan and let them boil an hour and a half ; then take a few good sized leeks, a stock of greens and one of savoyp, a Swedish turnip, and a grated carrot, clean washed and cut down, and a few sprigs of parsley ; let them boil another hour ; then three good sized potatoes, and let them boil another half-hour, taking care the whole time not to let them off the boil, and only let them boil gently to preserve the flavour of the broth. Add salt immediately after the vegetables, and a little pepper, and you will have a first-rate potful of broth or Scotch kail, as it is called ; and wo do believe in the old Scotch proverb, "There is nothing like kail for a family." A simple means recommended by an Italian physician for the relief of ctacked nipple is to powder it repeatedly with pulverised gum arabic.

A Yarn Spun in the Fo'c'stlo.— Ben Blowhard says that one of his voyages was made under a captain who Ayas noted for working his crew ; and on tho trip home, haviug nothing else to do, he kept all hands to work '' sotting up riggiog," au operation which is done by tightening the standing rigging which supports the voxel's masts. " Well," says old Bon, "it was nothing but settin rigpin' almost every day till wo hovo iv sight of laud. We wero bound for "London, and just iis wo were passin' tho North Foreland, wo grounded in five fathom. Then the captain ripped and swore till he was blue. ' Henve the lead,' says he. He hovo firgfc on the stab'ard aud then on the lab'ard side. There she was, fast in thirty feet o' water, and she only drawod eighteen ! I guess our boys liughed somo when we found that wo had set up the riggin' so much that we'd hauled her masts through tho vessel's bottpiu twelve feet !"