East London . st were day Liz pondered over the list and calculated the meat-pie at twopence—glorious! But could she affordtwopence? The jam pudding at one halfpenny! It seemscheap, and a good lump too, with a thick slab of red jam—plum jam—laid all over the top. But yet, even a halfpennyis sometimes dear. You see that dinner is wanted on sevendays in the week. It was impossible to afford jam puddingevery day. Fagots, again. They are only a penny hot, andthree farthings cold. A fagot is a really toothsome prepara-tion. In appearance it is a square cake. In compositio
East London . st were day Liz pondered over the list and calculated the meat-pie at twopence—glorious! But could she affordtwopence? The jam pudding at one halfpenny! It seemscheap, and a good lump too, with a thick slab of red jam—plum jam—laid all over the top. But yet, even a halfpennyis sometimes dear. You see that dinner is wanted on sevendays in the week. It was impossible to afford jam puddingevery day. Fagots, again. They are only a penny hot, andthree farthings cold. A fagot is a really toothsome prepara-tion. In appearance it is a square cake. In composition itcontains the remnants and odd bits of a butchers shop—beef, veal, mutton, lamb, with fat and gristle contributed byall the animals concerned. The whole is minced or tritu-rated. It is treated with spices and shreds of onion, and isthen turned out in shapes and baked. No one in the posi-tion of our Liz can withstand the temptation of a rich people who keep the shops, she believes, live ex-. iWi% fell
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