d of butter, and
mix with the above, adding as much flour as will knead it into a pretty
stiff paste. Roll it out, cut it into cakes, bake them on tin plates in
a quick oven, and a little time will do them. Gingerbread buttons or
drops may be made of a part of the paste.--A plain sort of gingerbread
may be prepared as follows. Mix three pounds of flour with half a pound
of butter, four ounces of brown sugar, and half an ounce of pounded
ginger. Make it into a paste, with a pound and a quarter of warm
treacle. Or make the gingerbread without butter, by mixing two pounds of
treacle with the following ingredients. Four ounces each of orange,
lemon, citron, and candied ginger, all thinly sliced; one ounce each of
coriander seeds, caraways, and pounded ginger, adding as much flour as
will make it into a soft paste. Lay it in cakes on tin plates, and bake
it in a quick oven. Keep it dry in a covered earthen vessel, and the
gingerbread will be good for some months. If cakes or biscuits be kept
in paper, or a drawer, the taste will be disagreeable. A tureen, or a
pan and cover, will preserve them long and moist; or if intended to be
crisp, laying them before the fire, or keeping them in a dry canister,
will make them so.

GINGERBREAD NUTS. Carefully melt half a pound of butter, and stir it up
in two pounds of treacle. Add an ounce of pounded ginger, two ounces of
preserved lemon and orange peel, two ounces of preserved angelica cut
small, one of coriander seed pounded, and the same of caraway whole. Mix
them together, with two eggs, and as much flour as will bring it to a
fine paste. Make it into nuts, put them on a tin plate, and bake them in
a quick oven.

GLASS. Broken glass may be mended with the same cement as china, or if
it be only cracked, it will be sufficient to moisten the part with the
white of an egg, strewing it over with a little powdered lime, and
instantly applying a piece of fine linen. Another cement for glass is
prepared from two parts of litharge, one of quick lime, and one of flint
glass, each separately and finely powdered, and the whole worked up into
a paste with drying oil. This compound is very durable, and acquires a
greater degree of hardness when immersed in water.

GLASSES. These frail and expensive articles may be rendered less
brittle, and better able to bear sudden changes of temperature, by first
plunging them into cold water, then gradually heating the water till it
boils, and suffer