For brewing Spruce Beer.

Take four ounces of hops, let them boil half an hour in one gallon of water, strain the hop water then add sixteen gallons of warm water, two gallons of molasses, eight ounces of essence of spruce, dissolved in one quart of water, put it in a clean cask, then shake it well together, add half a pint of emptins, then let it stand and work one week, if very warm weather less time will do, when it is drawn off to bottle, add one spoonful of molasses to every bottle.

Emptins.

Take a handful of hops and about three quarts of water, let it boil about fifteen minutes, then make a thickening as you do for starch, strain the liquor, when cold put a little emptins to work them, they will keep well cork’d in a bottle five or six weeks.

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Page 25.  Rice pudding, No. 2; for one pound butter, read half pound—­for 14 eggs read 8.  No. 5; after half pint rice, add 6 ounces sugar.

Page 26.  A nice Indian pudding, No. 3; boil only 6 hours.—­A flour pudding; read 9 spoons of flour, put in scalding milk; bake an hour and half.—­A boiled flour pudding; 9 spoons of flour, boil an hour and half.

Page 27.  A cream almond pudding; for 8 yolks and 3 whites, read 8 eggs; for 1 spoon flour, read 8—­boil an hour and half.

Potato pudding, No. 1, No. 2. add a pint flour to each.

Page 29.  Puff pastes for tarts, No, 3; for 12 eggs read 6.

Page 33.  Plain cake; for 1 quart of emptins, read 1 pint.

Page 35.  Another plain cake, No. 5; for 9 pounds of flour, read 18 pounds.

In all Puddings, where cream is mentioned, milk may be used.

In pastes, the white of eggs only are to be used.