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Birchen rods are formed of a handful of twigs of that tree with which malefactors are scourged on the back.
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Cream, with the Whites of three Eggs, season it with Sugar, and beat it as you do Snow-Cream, with Birchen Rods, and take off the Froth as it ariseth, and put it into your Pot, so do till it be beaten to a Froth, let it stand two or three hours till it do settle, and then it will eat finely.
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Pint of Cream and a little Rosewater, and the Whites of three Eggs, and whip it to a froth with a Birchen Rod, then as the Froth arises, cast it upon your Cream which hath the Runnet in it, till it lies deep, then lay on Bunches of preserved Barberries here and there carelesly, and cast more Snow upon them, which will look exceeding well; then garnish your
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[79] [Footnote 79: Birchen Canoe: Song of the Ship.]
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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[79] [Footnote 79: Birchen Canoe: Song of the Ship.] _May 18th_.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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The 20th, five p. to _Birchen, _ [Berdjan,] where are manufactured great quantities of fine felts, and carpets of camels hair, which are sold at the rates of from two to five abacees the _maund.
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Take the whites of two Eggs, and a pint of Cream, six spoonfuls of Sack, as much Sugar as will sweeten it; then take a Birchen rod and whip it; as it riseth with froth, skim it, and put it into the Syllabub pot; so continue it with whipping and skimming, till your Syllabub pot be full.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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On Wednesday night (Sept 30) a Luton Borough Council committee gave the go-ahead to the scheme for 34 houses and two flats on land between St Martin's Avenue and Birchen Grove.
unknown title 2009
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Take a Pint of Cream, and the Whites of three Eggs, one spoonful or two of Rosewater, whip it to a Froth with a Birchen Rod, then cast it off the Rod into a Dish, in the which you have first fastened half a Manchet with some Butter on the bottom, and a long Rosemary sprig in the middle; when you have all cast the Snow on the dish, then garnish it with several sorts of sweet-meats.
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_Gallus bankiva_ and in our domestic fowls, the barbs which arise from each side of the extremities of the hackles are naked or not clothed with barbules, so that they resemble bristles; but Mr. Brent sent me some scapular hackles from a young Birchen Duckwing Game cock, in which the naked barbs became densely reclothed with barbules towards their tips; so that these tips, which were dark coloured with a metallic lustre, were separated from the lower parts by a symmetrically-shaped transparent zone formed of the naked portions of the barbs.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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