1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS

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ful cream of tartar, 2 pounds white sugar ; Then put in the other part of the 2 lemons, 1 teaspoonful saleratus, 4 table- spoonfuls yeast, and the glair of 4 eggs, to clear. Cinnamon and cloves to your taste. let this stand until milk-warm.

No. 97.

How to

make Silver -top ^

a temperance drink.

Take 1 quart water, SJ pounds white sugar, 1 tea- spoonful lemon-oil, 1 tablespoonful flour, with the white of 5 eggs, well beat up ; mix all the above well together. Then divide the syrup, and add 4 ounces carbonate of soda into one part, and put it into a bottle, and then add 3 ounces tartaric acid to the other part of the syrup, and bottle it also. Take 2 pint tumblers, and put in each tumbler 1 table- spoonful of the syrup, (that is, from each bottle of the syrup,) and fill them half full with fresh cold water; pour it together into one tumbler. Superb.

No. 98.

Sassafras Mead, a cheap beverage.

Stir gradually with 1 quart boiling water, IJ pounds brown sugar, 3 gills molasses, and 1 drachm tartaric acid. Stir it well, and when cold strain it into a large earthen pan or crock ; then mix in 1 drachm essence of sassafras. Transfer it to clean bottles, (it will fill 2 or 3 ;) cork it tightly, and keep it in a cool place. Have ready a box containing about J- pound carbonate of soda, to use with it. To prepare a glass of it for drinking, pour a little