end of a hand of pork which has previously been well soaked, a few sweet
herbs, a couple of onions, and a head of celery ; then cut the meat into
small pieces. Break the bones, put them back into the soup, and simmer
for four or five hours ; let it cool, remove the fat, and strain. Thicken the
soup with flour and butter ; add two spoonfuls of mushroom ketchup and
one of soy, four or five glasses of Madeira wine, and the juice of a lemon ;
put in the meat of the head and the pork cut into well-shaped pieces,
forcemeat balls and egg balls, and serve as soon as the meat is warmed
through.
MODELS IN WAX. — To produce a wax model proceed to take
the mould in precisely the same manner as for a plaster cast (see below),
and when the whole is well bound together pour the wax into it ; allow it
to cool on the outside to the thickness of about an eighth of an inch,
and pour off the remainder, or insert into the mould a smaller quantity
and shake it about until a good even coating is obtained. Remove the
mould, trim the seams, and in the case of heads, carve out the eyes as in
the plaster cast.
MODELS OF LIVING BEINGS, To Cast.— Lay the person
to be modelled upon his back with the head raised by a bran pillow to the
position assumed while walking ; cover the face, or other parts to be cast,
with oil of olives, plug the ears with cotton wool, and insert a quill up each
nostril, carefully filling in with wool the space between the quill and the
nostrils. Next take some plaster of Paris and mix it with warm water to
the consistence of cream ; cover the face with the plaster, beginning at the
upper part of the forehead, and spread it downwards over the eyes (which
must be kept firmly closed) and as far as the lower border of the chin. It
the chest and arms are to be taken, cover those parts and work upwards, so
as to join the cast of the face. When this has set remove it carefully.
The next operation is to prepare a trencher rather deeper than half the head,
fill it with liquid plaster, and lower the head (which must previously be well
greased) into it. Then turn the person on his face and cast the neck, and
afterwards the back. This being accomplished, soak the parts thoroughly
in linseed oil, boiled with sugar of lead or litharge ; tie them together ;
carefully oil the mould, and pour therein liquid plaster. When the outside
is nearly set, scoop out the centre with a spoon, so as to render the cast
lighter, and allow the whole to dry, when the strings may be cut, the mould
removed, and the edges of the joints smoothed off. The only thing now to be
done is to carve the eyes out of the solid mass, otherwise they will of course
appear closed.
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end of a hand of pork which has previously been well soaked, a few sweet herbs, a couple of onions, and a head of celery ; then cut the meat into small pieces. Break the bones, put them back into the soup, and simmer for four or five hours ; let it cool, remove the fat, and strain. Thicken the soup with flour and butter ; add two spoonfuls of mushroom ketchup and one of soy, four or five glasses of Madeira wine, and the juice of a lemon ; put in the meat of the head and the pork cut into well-shaped pieces, forcemeat balls and egg balls, and serve as soon as the meat is warmed through.
MODELS IN WAX. — To produce a wax model proceed to take the mould in precisely the same manner as for a plaster cast (see below), and when the whole is well bound together pour the wax into it ; allow it to cool on the outside to the thickness of about an eighth of an inch, and pour off the remainder, or insert into the mould a smaller quantity and shake it about until a good even coating is obtained. Remove the mould, trim the seams, and in the case of heads, carve out the eyes as in the plaster cast.
MODELS OF LIVING BEINGS, To Cast.— Lay the person to be modelled upon his back with the head raised by a bran pillow to the position assumed while walking ; cover the face, or other parts to be cast, with oil of olives, plug the ears with cotton wool, and insert a quill up each nostril, carefully filling in with wool the space between the quill and the nostrils. Next take some plaster of Paris and mix it with warm water to the consistence of cream ; cover the face with the plaster, beginning at the upper part of the forehead, and spread it downwards over the eyes (which must be kept firmly closed) and as far as the lower border of the chin. It the chest and arms are to be taken, cover those parts and work upwards, so as to join the cast of the face. When this has set remove it carefully. The next operation is to prepare a trencher rather deeper than half the head, fill it with liquid plaster, and lower the head (which must previously be well greased) into it. Then turn the person on his face and cast the neck, and afterwards the back. This being accomplished, soak the parts thoroughly in linseed oil, boiled with sugar of lead or litharge ; tie them together ; carefully oil the mould, and pour therein liquid plaster. When the outside is nearly set, scoop out the centre with a spoon, so as to render the cast lighter, and allow the whole to dry, when the strings may be cut, the mould removed, and the edges of the joints smoothed off. The only thing now to be done is to carve the eyes out of the solid mass, otherwise they will of course appear closed.