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108 good. Make your own pickles, after recipes found in this book. The Length of Time to Cook Meats Lamb Roast a leg of Iamb three hours. Wash clean, sprinkle over it a little flour and salt and put into a pan, with cold water. While it is cooking, take a spoon and pour over it the water from the pan, three or four times. Veal Roast veal three hours, treating it the same way as lamb. When you have removed it from the pan, make a smooth paste, by wetting two or three tablespoonfuls of flour with cold water, and stir into the water left in the pan. Pour in more water, if the size of your family requires it. Beef Roast beef requires fifteen minutes for each pound. Do not salt beef, until you take it from the oven. Ham Boil a ham of ordinary size three hours. Let cool in the water in which it is boiled. It is very nice to remove the skin, while ^arm, stick cloves in the outside, sprinkle over it a little vinegar and sugar and bake for one hour.