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milk and water mixed. When the milk and water boil, take it off the fire; throw
in the chocolate, beat it up well, and serve it up with the froth. This process
will not take ten minutes; you may add sugar to your taste, either when you add
the chocolate, or when poured off.
TO MAKE GREEN TEA.
Scald your tea-pot, put in two tea-spoonsful of tea to a quart of water, let it
stand a few minutes in the hot tea-pot before you fill up. This is considered a
good way; or, you can pour on a tea-cup of boiling water, and let it steep; this
an old fashion, and the one I have always followed in making tea. Tea is never
better for standing over fifteen minutes.
BLACK TEA.
It is best boiled a minute; it is not so powerful as green, and therefore
requires at least a tablespoonful to a quart of water. It is made as green tea.
PUNCH.
For a gallon of punch, take six lemons, rub them very hard on the outside with
lumps of loaf-sugar, until they become quite yellow, throw the lumps into a
bowl, cut the lemons in slices, squeeze them over the sugar, add all the pulp
you can to the juice and sugar; beat up the sugar well, continue to add to it as
long as it will melt, so that it will be
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