APPLE WATER.
499. Slice three large pippin apples, and pour over them a pint of boiling water. Stand them in a cool place, when perfectly cold strain off the water, and sweeten it to the taste.
Toast may be added.
BARLEY WATER.
500. Wash and pick one ounce of pearl barley, pour over it one tea cupful of water, and let it boil for ten minutes. Drain it, and pour over it three tea cupsful of boiling water; set it over the fire, and boil it down one half. Strain it through a hair sieve or piece of muslin.
Gum arabic is sometimes dissolved in it; the liquid sweetened to the taste, forms a very agreeable drink.
TOAST WATER.
501. Toast two or three slices of bread of a dark brown all the way through, but do not burn it. Put the toast in a deep bowl, and pour over it one quart of water, let it stand for two or three hours. Then pour the water from the bread.
Some flavor it by soaking a piece of lemon-peel with the bread.