a
quart of vinegar, three bits of ginger, half an ounce of pepper, and a
quarter of an ounce of cloves. When cold, pour it over the red cabbage.
Tie the jar closely with bladder.

SWEETMEATS.

TO CLARIFY SUGAR.

'Mongst salts essential, _sugar_ wins the palm,
For taste, for color, and for various use.
O'er all thy works let cleanliness preside,
Child of frugality; and as the scum
Thick mantles o'er the boiling wave, do thou
The scum that mantles carefully remove.
GRAINGER.

Whereof little
More than a little is by much too much.
SHAKSPEARE.

To every three pounds of loaf sugar, allow the beaten white of an egg
and a pint and a half of water; break the sugar small, put it into a
nicely cleaned brass pan, pour the water over it; let it stand some time
before it be put upon the fire, then add the beaten white of the egg;
stir it till the sugar be entirely dissolved; when it boils up, pour in
a quarter of a pint of cold water, let it boil up a second time, take it
off the fire, let it settle for fifteen minutes, carefully take off all
the scum, let it boil again till sufficiently thick; in order to
ascertain which, drop a little from a spoon into a jar of cold water,
and if it become quite hard, it is sufficiently done, and the fruit to
be preserved must instantly be put in and boiled.

CURRANT JELLY.

He snuffs far off the anticipated joy,
_Jelly_ and ven'son all his thoughts employ.
COWPER.

Currant, grape, and raspberry jelly are all made precisely in the same
manner. When the fruit is full ripe, gather it on a dry day. As soon as
it is nicely picked, put it into a jar, and cover it down very close.
Set the jar in a saucepan, about three parts filled with cold water; put
it on a gentle fire, and let it simmer for about half an hour. Take the
pan from the fire, and pour the contents of the jar into a jelly-bag,
pass the juice through a second time; do not squeeze the bag. To each
pint of juice, add a pound and a half of very good lump sugar pounded,
when it is put into a preserving pan; set it on the fire, and boil it
gently, stirring and skimming it the whole time (about thirty or forty
minutes), _i. e._ till no more scum rises, and it is perfectly clear and
fine; pour it warm into pots, and when cold, cover them with paper
wetted in brandy.

Half a pint of this jelly disso