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VERY STRONG TABLE VINEGAR.
Take two gallons of good cider and thoroughly mix it with two pounds of new
honey, pour into your cask or bottle, and let it stand from four to six months,
when you will have vinegar so strong that it cannot be used at table without
diluting with water. It is the best ever procured for pickling purposes.
PINEAPPLE-ADE.
Pare and slice some very ripe pineapples; then cut the slices into small pieces.
Put them with all their juice into a large pitcher, and sprinkle among them
plenty of powdered white sugar. Pour on the boiling water, allowing a small half
pint to each pineapple. Cover the pitcher, and let it stand till quite cool,
occasionally pressing down the pineapple with a spoon. Then set the pitcher for
a while in ice. Lastly, strain the infusion into another vessel, and transfer it
to tumblers, putting into each glass some more sugar and a bit of ice. This
beverage will be found delicious.
SEIDLITZ POWDERS.
Fold in a white paper a mixture of one drachm of Rochelle salts and twenty-five
grains of carbonate of soda, in a blue paper twenty grains of tartaric acid.
They should all be pulverized very finely. Put the contents of the white paper
into a tumbler, not quite half full of cold water, and stir it till dissolved.
Then put the mixture from the blue paper into another tumbler with the same
quantity of water, and stir that also. When the powders are dissolved in both
tumblers, pour the first into the other, and it will effervesce immediately.
Drink it quickly, while foaming.
INEXPENSIVE DRINK.
A very nice, cheap drink which may take the place of lemonade, and be found
fully as healthful, is made with one cupful of pure cider vinegar, half a cupful
of good molasses, put into one quart pitcher of ice-water. A tablespoonful of
ground ginger added makes a healthful beverage.
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