Stir to dissolve and then add to the boiling mixture. Cook for fifteen minutes and then fill into all-glass jars and seal. Store in a cool dry place.
FOR EIGHT COUPLES
In English communities it is the custom to sit up and watch the departing year out and to welcome in the new. The farmers in the north country visit the orchards, while the folk in the highlands visit and return calls.
The custom of New Year's calling is very old indeed, and in the years of long ago the Beau Brummels and dandies of the times enjoyed the New Year's calling as a very rare sport.
The mummers who are abroad this day follow the ancient custom of dear old Scotland, where these rites have prevailed for many centuries.
Toast the old year out and new one in with a loving cup:
Ring out the old with all its hate,
Ring in the new with love and cheer,
Ring on, oh bells of time;