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 Add the whole together, and beat half an hour with a silver spoon. Butter small pans and half fill them. Bake 20 minutes in a quick oven.

TAKE a pound of white soft soap and two ounces of Spermaceti pounded, and a quarter of an ounce of pounded camphor, two table spoonfulls of sweet oil, three of the best brandy, and a tea cup full white sand. Dissolve and mix the whole over the fire, and when nearly cold, suit it to your taste with essence of bergamot, lavender or other perfume.

BOIL the cotton in common olive oil, or in some other pure vegetable oil, and afterwards in mild alkali, when it is thus cleansed, it will take the madder die, and this is the fine colour which is so much admired in the Smyrna cotton yarn.

BLOOD Root, Extract of Liquorice, Anniseed, of each one ounce; pulverize them, and put them into a quart of water. Simmer to one pint, then strain and add four ounces of honey, and one half pint of old rum. Of this take a table spoonful three or four times a day.

THE principal distinguishing marks of a good Cow are said to be these: wide horns, a thin head and neck, dew lap large, full breast, broad back, large deep belly; the udder capacious but not too fleshy; the milch