Note 392-* — APPENDIX; COMPRISING DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING PASTRY, PRESERVES, BREAD, PUDDINGS, PICKLES, &c. &c.

An old gentlewoman, who lived almost entirely on puddings, told us, it was a long time before she could get them made uniformly good, till she made the following rule:—“If the pudding was good, she let the cook have the remainder of it; if it was not, she gave it to her lapdog;” but as soon as this resolution was known, poor little Bow-wow seldom got the sweet treat after.