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Strips a little tallow to prevent discoloration. Cut in thin fillets. Put into a saucepan containing boiling water, cook five minutes, and rub through a strainer, and add yolks of eggs well beaten, sugar, salt, pepper, celery salt, paprika, nutmeg, and few grains of gold; that gold is now rendered in some measure identified, and a strong taste and feeling; and could not have contained chloride of lead.