Part 38

Pour this gradually upon the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. Add the boiling grape juice, dust lightly with grated nutmeg and serve immediately.

Live while you live, the epicure would say and seize the pleasures of the present day. Doddridge

Peppermint Cup

Soak half an ounce of pulverized gum arabic in half a cupful of cold water for 30 minutes. Dissolve it over hot water.

Add one cupful of powdered sugar and cook until it will spin a thread.

Pour this upon the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, and when well blended add gradually a pint of boiling cream, a few drops of essence of peppermint and a tiny pinch of baking soda.

Serve while it foams, sprinkled with a little powdered cinnamon.

Unquiet meals make ill digestions. Comedy of Errors

Amber Marmalade

1 orange 1 grape fruit 1 lemon

Slice very thin. Measure the fruit and add 3 times the quantity of water. Stand in an earthen dish over night and in morning boil for ten minutes. Stand another night and the second morning add pint for pint of sugar and boil steadily until it jellies.

This should make 8 or 10 glasses but the size of fruit determines the quantity. Stir as little as possible during the two hours or more of the cooking which it requires. Do not use the rind of the grape fruit.

Grape Juice

5 lbs Concord Grapes 1 quart water sugar

Boil grapes five to ten minutes. Then strain through a wire strainer and afterwards cheese cloth. To every quart of juice add 1 lb. sugar. Bottle and seal.

PRESERVES, PICKLES, ETC.

Sour Pickles

1 peck green tomatoes 1 lb. figs 1 lb. seeded raisins 1 cup vinegar 4 cups sugar 20 cloves A few sticks cinnamon

Sweet Pickles

Tomato and Fig Pickles

One peck of green tomatoes sliced and salted in layers, place in granite boiler over night. In the morning drain off brine and rinse in cold water.

Chop up a pound of figs, add to the tomatoes, cover with vinegar and boil twenty minutes; add 1 pound of seeded raisins, 1 cup of vinegar, 4 cups of sugar, 20 cloves and a few sticks of cinnamon tied in a cheese cloth bag, and cook together slowly for 3/4 of an hour.

LUCRETIA L. BLANKENBURG.

Lemon Butter

6 eggs 3 very large lemons (rind and juice) 2 cups sugar 2 tablespoons water butter size of walnut

Mix all together with Dove egg beater and cook until it boils. Watch that it does not burn.

Kumquat Preserves

1 quart fruit to 1 pint sugar