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oil into each; or a little more, if for larger bottles. Cork the bottles, and
set them upright in a cool place.
When you want lemon-juice, open such a sized bottle as you shall use in two or
three days; wind some clean cotton round a skewer, and dipping it in, the oil
will be attracted; and when all shall be removed, the juice will be as fine as
when first bottled.
Hang the peels up till dry; then keep them from the dust.
China Orange-juice. A very useful thing to mix with water in Fevers, when
the fresh Juice cannot be procured.
Squeeze from the finest fruit, a pint of juice strained through fine muslin, and
gently simmer with three quarters of a pound of double-refined sugar twenty
minutes; when cold, put it in small bottles.
Different ways of dressing Cranberries.
For pies and puddings, with a good deal of sugar.
Stewed in a jar with the same; which way they eat well with bread, and are very
wholesome.
Thus done, pressed and strained, the juice makes a fine drink for people in
fevers.
Orgeat.
Boil a quart of new milk with a stick of cinnamon, sweeten to your taste, and
let it grow cold; then pour it by degrees to three ounces of almonds, and twenty
bitter, that have been blanched and beaten to a paste, with a little water to
prevent oiling; boil all together, and stir till cold, then add half a glass of
brandy.
Another way.--Blanch and pound three quarters of a pound of almonds, and thirty
bitter, with a spoonful of water. Stir in by degrees two pints of water, and
three of milk, and strain the whole through a cloth. Dissolve half a pound of
fine sugar in a pint of wafer, boil and skim it well; mix it with the other, as
likewise two spoonfuls of orange-flower water, and a tea-cupful of the best
brandy.
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