Two or three doses of a tablespoonful or less will check any
slight diarrhoea. When the attack is violent, give a tablespoonful
after each discharge until the complaint is in subjection. It will
arrest dysentery if given in season, and is a pleasant and safe
remedy. Excellent for children when teething.

HOP BEER.

Take five quarts of water, six ounces of hops, boil it three hours;
then strain the liquor, add to it five quarts of water, four ounces of
bruised ginger root; boil this again twenty minutes, strain and add
four pounds of sugar. When luke-warm put in a pint of yeast. Let it
ferment; in twenty-four hours it will be ready for bottling.

GINGER BEER.

Put into a kettle two ounces of powdered ginger root (or more if it is
not very strong), half an ounce of cream of tartar, two large lemons,
cut in slices, two pounds of broken loaf sugar and two gallons of soft
boiling water. Simmer them over a slow fire for half an hour. When the
liquor is nearly cold, stir into it a large tablespoonful of the best
yeast. After it has fermented, which will be in about twenty-four
hours, bottle for use.

SPRUCE BEER.

Allow an ounce of hops and a spoonful of ginger to a gallon of water.
When well boiled, strain it and put in a pint of molasses, or a pound
of brown sugar, and half an ounce or less of the essence of spruce;
when cool, add a teacupful of yeast, and put into a clean tight cask,
and let it ferment for a day or two, then bottle it for use. You can
boil the sprigs of spruce fir in place of the essence.

ROMAN PUNCH. No. 1.

Grate the yellow rind of four lemons and two oranges upon two pounds
of loaf sugar. Squeeze the juice of the lemons and oranges; cover it
and let it stand until next day. Strain it through a sieve, mix with
the sugar; add a bottle of champagne and the whites of eight eggs
beaten to a stiff froth. It may be frozen or not, as desired. For
winter use snow instead of ice.

ROMAN PUNCH. No. 2.

Make two quarts of lemonade, rich with pure juice lemon fruit; add one
tablespoonful of extract of lemon. Work well and freeze; just before
serving, add for each quart of ice half a pint of brandy and half a
pint of Jamaica rum. Mix well and serve in high glasses, as this makes
what is called a semi or half ice. It is usually served at dinners as
a _coup de milieu_.

DELICIOUS JUNKET.

Take two quarts of new milk, warm it on the stove to about blood heat,
pour it into a glass or china bo