PIKE, to Fricassee. — Clean ; cut into large pieces, and put them into a stewpan, with mushrooms, butter, 12 small onions, half boiled, a little parsley, green shalots, two cloves, thyme, and a bay leaf ; soak all together for some time ; add a pint of sherry, some broth, salt, and whole pepper ; boil briskly ; reduce the same ; take out the fagot, and make a combination with cream, eggs, and a little nutmeg✪ Pigeons, to Pickle ; adding a lemon squeeze, if the wine does not make it tart enough. PIKE, to Roast a. — Gut a large pike, and lard it with eel and bacon ; then take thyme, savory, salt, mace, nutmeg, some crumbs of bread, bee< suet, and parsley, all shred very fine, mix them with raw eggs, and put in the belly of the pike, sew up the belly, dis- solve three anchovies in butter✪ Pike to Roast, to baste it with ; put two laths on each side the. pike, and tie it to the spit ; melt butter for sauce. Garnish thick, with lemon, PIK P1JL 30b PIKELETS, or CRUMPETS. — See Crumpets , page 149.— Take 3 lbs. of flour, two eggs, and a pint of milk ; whisk the milk and the eggs well to- gether ; then add the flour, a little salt, and two table-spoonfuls of new bra✪ Pikelets or Crumpetsn ; stir them well together, and let them rise; when the bakestone is hot, pour the batter upon it, either in hoops made on purpose or without ; when ready to turn they will appear full of holes on the top side ; turn them, and bake them a fine brown. PILES. — An enlargement of the veins at the lower termination of the intestines, frequently causing great pain, bleeding, and difficult evacuation. The tumours are seated sometimes external- ly, and sometimes within the verge of the anus, for the most part attended with a discharge of blood ; these are called bleeding piles. When no blood is discharged, they are termed blind piles ; and, when the discharge is only serum, white piles. It is most frequently caused by cos- tiveness, by pregnancy, and a sedentary life, by strong purgatives, and by dram- drinking. The piles are sometimes the effect of relaxation and debility, and not unfrequently result from an inflamma- tory action in the rectum, and a dimin- ished secretion of mucus from its inner membrane. Treatment. — When piles are caused by constipation, and a debilitated state of thf bowels, it is needful to open them, and keep them so by gentle aperients. Medicines which act moder- ately upon the bowels, are calculated to remove that morbid state of the liver and stomach which often causes the complaint. The patient may take sul- phur, cream of tartar, confection of senna, and the lenitive electuary ; but all strong purgatives must be avoided. Mix sulphur, j4 02. ; confection of senna, 2 02s. ; saltpetre, 3 drachms ; and as much syrup of orange as will give the mixture a proper consistence. About the size of a nutmeg must be taken twice or thrice a day. It is very sootning and healing to steam the parts with a sitz bath made of a strong decoc- tion of bitter herbs ; as hops, catnep, tansy, pennyroyal, and camomile flowers. Pour upon them boiling water and vine- — ! gar. Infuse some time ; boil again, and j let the steam approach the parts.

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PIKE, to Fricassee. — Clean ; cut into large pieces, and put them into a stewpan, with mushrooms, butter, 12 small onions, half boiled, a little parsley, green shalots, two cloves, thyme, and a bay leaf ; soak all together for some time ; add a pint of sherry, some broth, salt, and whole pepper ; boil briskly ; reduce the same ; take out the fagot, and make a combination with cream, eggs, and a little nutmeg ; adding a lemon squeeze, if the wine does not make it tart enough. PIKE, to Roast a. — Gut a large pike, and lard it with eel and bacon ; then take thyme, savory, salt, mace, nutmeg, some crumbs of bread, beef suet, and parsley, all shred very fine, mix them with raw eggs, and put in the belly of the pike, sew up the belly, dissolve three anchovies in butter, to baste it with ; put two laths on each side the. pike, and tie it to the spit ; melt butter for sauce. Garnish thick, with lemon, PIK P1JL 30b [illustration: PIKELETS, or CRUMPETS.] — See Crumpets, page 149. — Take 3 lbs. of flour, two eggs, and a pint of milk ; whisk the milk and the eggs well together ; then add the flour, a little salt, and two table-spoonfuls of new bran ; stir them well together, and let them rise; when the bakestone is hot, pour the batter upon it, either in hoops made on purpose or without ; when ready to turn they will appear full of holes on the top side ; turn them, and bake them a fine brown. PILES. — An enlargement of the veins at the lower termination of the intestines, frequently causing great pain, bleeding, and difficult evacuation. The tumours are seated sometimes externally, and sometimes within the verge of the anus, for the most part attended with a discharge of blood ; these are called bleeding piles. When no blood is discharged, they are termed blind piles ; and, when the discharge is only serum, white piles. It is most frequently caused by costiveness, by pregnancy, and a sedentary life, by strong purgatives, and by dramdrinking. The piles are sometimes the effect of relaxation and debility, and not unfrequently result from an inflammatory action in the rectum, and a diminished secretion of mucus from its inner membrane. Treatment. — When piles are caused by constipation, and a debilitated state of thf bowels, it is needful to open them, and keep them so by gentle aperients. Medicines which act moderately upon the bowels, are calculated to remove that morbid state of the liver and stomach which often causes the complaint. The patient may take sulphur, cream of tartar, confection of senna, and the lenitive electuary ; but all strong purgatives must be avoided. Mix sulphur, j4 02. ; confection of senna, 2 02s. ; saltpetre, 3 drachms ; and as much syrup of orange as will give the mixture a proper consistence. About the size of a nutmeg must be taken twice or thrice a day. It is very sootning and healing to steam the parts with a sitz bath made of a strong decoction of bitter herbs ; as hops, catnep, tansy, pennyroyal, and camomile flowers. Pour upon them boiling water and vine- — ! gar. Infuse some time ; boil again, and j let the steam approach the parts.

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