445. Select the white cling-stone, known by the name of the "Heath peach." Make a hot ley of ashes and water, put in a few peaches at a time, and let them remain about a minute and a half, or until the skin will rub off with your finger. Take them out and throw them in a vessel of cold water, when all are done in this manner, rub off the skins with a cloth, and throw them in another vessel of cold water. Make a syrup of half a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit. Prepare it in the same manner as for preserves; put in your peaches, and let them boil until they are sufficiently tender to be easily pierced with a straw.
Take them out, and add to each pint of syrup a quart of the very best white brandy, when the fruit is cool put it in your jars, but leave plenty of room to fill them with the syrup, as if packed too closely they lose their shape.
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SAGO MILK.
446. Wash half an ounce of sago and soak it in a tea cupful of cold water for an hour or more. Drain it and add to it three gills of good milk; put it over the fire and let it simmer until the sago is entirely incorporated with the milk. Sweeten it with white sugar. It may be flavored with vanilla, lemon, or nutmeg, if allowed of by the physician.
ORGEAT.
447. Blanch one ounce of bitter, and two of sweet almonds. Pound them in a mortar with a little milk until they are to a paste. Rub gradually into the pounded almond one tea cupful of milk. Sweeten it to the taste and strain it.
It may be flavored with lemon.