New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families

teapot, put to it two quarts of brandy, one of white wine, and one of milk, and one pound and a quarter of sugar. Let it be mixed, and then covered for twenty four hours, strain through a jellybag till clear; then bottle it. _Orange, or Lemon syrup; a most useful thing to keep in the house, to take with water, in colds or fevers._ Squeeze the juice of very good fruit, and boil when strained, a pint to a pound of sugar, over a very gentle fire; skim it well; when clear, pour it into a China bowl, and in twenty four hours bottle it for use. _White Currant shrub._ Strip the fruit, and prepare in a jar as for jelly; strain the juice, of which put two quarts to one gallon of rum, and two pounds of lump sugar; strain through a jellybag. * * * * * The following pages will contain Cookery for the sick; it being of more consequence to support those whose bad appetites will not allow them to take the necessary nourishment, than to stimulate those that are in health. It may not be unnecessary to advise that a choice be made of the things most likely to agree with the patient; _that_ a change be provided; _that_ some one at least be always ready; _that_ not too much of those be made at once, which are not likely to keep, as invalids require variety; and let them succeed each other in a different form and flavour. _A great Restorative._ Bake two calf’s feet in three pints of water, and new milk, in a jar close covered, three hours and a half. When cold remove the fat. Give a large teacupful the last and first thing. Whatever flavour is approved, give it by baking in it lemonpeel, cinnamon, or mace. Add sugar. _Another._ Simmer six sheep’s trotters, two blades of mace, a little cinnamon, lemonpeel, a few hartshorn shavings, and a little isinglass, in two quarts of water to one; when cold take off the fat, and give near half a pint twice