_Method._--Boil the sugar, water and tartaric acid five minutes. When nearly cold beat into the syrup the whites of the eggs, beaten until foamy, and the flavoring extract. Store in a fruit jar, closely covered. To use, put three tablespoonfuls into a glass half full of cold water, stir in one-fourth a teaspoonful of soda, and drink while effervescing. A pint of any kind of fruit juice may displace the water, when a teaspoonful of lemon juice should be added to the contents of each glass before stirring in the soda.
6 quarts of milk. 3 blades of mace. 1 five-inch stick of cinnamon. 12 cloves. 20 pounded almonds. 1 pound of chocolate. 3 cups of sugar. 2 quarts of boiling water. Yolks of three eggs.
_Method._--Scald the milk with the spices and nuts. Break up the chocolate and melt over hot water; add the sugar, mix thoroughly, then gradually stir in the boiling water; let cook two or three minutes after all the water has been added, then turn into the hot milk; let stand over hot water until ready to serve, then add the beaten yolks of eggs, diluted with half a cup of water, milk or cream, and strain through a cheese-cloth. Keep hot over hot water.
2 quarts of claret. 1 cup of sugar. 1 cup of water. 5 lemons cut in slices. 1 dozen whole cloves. 2 qts. of charged Apollinaris or soda water. 1/4 a cup of brandy, sherry or maraschino. Ice.
Boil the sugar and water about six minutes; let cool, then add the lemon slices, with seeds removed, and the cloves; let stand some hours in a cold place. When ready to serve, add the claret, water and liqueur, all chilled on ice. Put a piece of ice in the pitcher and pour over it the mixture. The beverage should not be sweet.
[Illustration: Copper Chafing-Dish with Earthen Casserole.]
_Gentlemen, prepare not to be gone; We have a trifling foolish banquet._ --ROMEO AND JULIET.
_Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast._ --COMEDY OF ERRORS, iii. I.
_A little quail, or some such light thing, when I come home at night._
_Now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit._ --SWIFT.
Well, he was an ingenious man that first found out eating and drinking.--_Swift._
How fire was discovered, when it was first applied to the needs of human beings, the origin and early use of cooking and heating utensils,--all are concealed from us in the mists that surround the life of prehistoric man. But at the dawn of history, even before the beginning of our era, crude appliances for cooking were in use; and, without doubt, one of the earliest of these was an utensil corresponding in some particulars, at least, to the chafing-dish of to-day.