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Lemonade Powders

Pound and mix together pound loaf sugar, 1 ounce carbonate of soda, and 3 drops oil of lemon. Divide the mixture into 16 portions, wrapped in white paper. Then take 1 ounce of tar- 4 BREWING. taric acid, and divide into 16 portions, wrap- 927. Mulled Wine with Eggs. ping them in blue paper. Dissolve one of quart of wine, 1 pint of water, 1 table-spooneach kind in half a tumbler of water, mix the ful of allspice, and nutmeg to taste; boil two solutions together, and drink while effervescing. them together a few minutes; beat up 6 eggs with sugar to your taste; pour the boiling wine on the eggs, stirring it all the time. Be careful not to pour the eggs into the wine, or they will curdle.

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