corks down, and in 3 days the ginger beer will be fit for use. For
some tastes, the above proportion of sugar may be found rather too
large, when it may be diminished; but the beer will not keep so long
good.

_Average cost_ for this quantity, 2s.; or 1/2d. per bottle.

_Sufficient_ to fill 4 dozen ginger-beer bottles.

_Seasonable_.--This should be made during the summer months.

LEMONADE.

1834. INGREDIENTS--The rind of 2 lemons, the juice of 3 large or 4 small
ones, 1 lb. of loaf sugar, 1 quart of boiling water.

_Mode_.--Rub some of the sugar, in lumps, on 2 of the lemons until they
have imbibed all the oil from them, and put it with the remainder of the
sugar into a jug; add the lemon-juice (but no pips), and pour over the
whole a quart of boiling water. When the sugar is dissolved, strain the
lemonade through a fine sieve or piece of muslin, and, when cool, it
will be ready for use. The lemonade will be much improved by having the
white of an egg beaten up in it; a little sherry mixed with it, also,
makes this beverage much nicer.

_Average cost_, 6d. per quart.

LEMONADE--"There is a current opinion among women" says Brillat
Savarin "which every year causes the death of many young
women,--that acids, especially vinegar, are preventives of
obesity. Beyond all doubt, acids have the effect of destroying
obesity; but they also destroy health and freshness. Lemonade
is, of all acids, the most harmless; but few stomachs can resist
it long. I knew, in 1776, at Dijon, a young lady of great
beauty, to whom I was attached by bonds of friendship, great,
almost as those of love. One day, when she had for some time
gradually grown pale and thin (previously she had a slight
embonpoint), she told me in confidence, that as her young
friends had ridiculed her for being fat, she had, to counteract
the tendency, been in the habit every day of drinking a large
glass of vinaigre. She died at eighteen years of age, from the
effects of these potions."

TO MAKE NEGUS.

1835. INGREDIENTS.--To every pint of port wine allow 1 quart of boiling
water, 1/4 lb. of sugar, 1 lemon, grated nutmeg to taste.

_Mode_.--As this beverage is more usually drunk at children's parties
than at any other, the wine need not be very old or expensive for the
purpose, a new fruity wine answering very well for it. Put the wine into
a jug, rub some lumps of sugar (equal to 1/4 lb.) on the