| To an exceedingly weak patient you give only a dessertspoonful, and no more for half-an-hour. |
| While hot put in a small lump of butter and a dessertspoonful of salt. |
| Put the vinegar, water, shallots, herbs and peppercorns in a saucepan and reduce the liquid to about a dessertspoonful. |
| Add a dessertspoonful of the roast garlic puree then stir well, taste and add more if desired. |
| Rub into it a dessertspoonful of butter, two eggs beaten very light, a wineglassful of cream or milk, and a little salt. |
| When the oil is hot, take a heaped dessertspoonful of the parsnip mixture and drop it into the pan and use a spatula to form it into a rough patty shape. |
