TENDING THE FURNACE.
(From Baker’s “Jewell of Health,” 1576.)

BALNEUM MARIÆ.
(From Baker’s “Jewell of Health,” 1576.)

To make Noyau.—Digest for a week, in a closed vessel, a mixture of a gallon of rectified spirits, a gallon of water, two pounds of crushed apricot or peach stones, and one pound of crushed plum or prune stones. Distil off five quarts, and add a gallon of syrup containing eight pounds of sugar and a gallon of water.

To make Orange Cordial.—Proceed as for cinnamon cordial, substituting three-quarters of a pound of the yellow part of fresh orange-peel for the cinnamon.


SOME OTHER CORDIALS AND BITTERS.