under a year or two. Age improves it.


RASPBERRY SHRUB.

Raspberry shrub mixed with water is a pure, delicious drink for
summer; and in a country where raspberries are abundant, it is good
economy to make it answer instead of Port and Catalonia wine. Put
raspberries in a pan, and scarcely cover them with strong vinegar. Add
a pint of sugar to a pint of juice; (of this you can judge by first
trying your pan to see how much it holds;) scald it, skim it, and
bottle it when cold.


COFFEE.

As substitutes for coffee, some use dry brown bread crusts, and roast
them; others soak rye grain in rum, and roast it; others roast peas in
the same way as coffee. None of these are very good; and peas so used
are considered unhealthy. Where there is a large family of apprentices
and workmen, and coffee is very dear, it may be worth while to use the
substitutes, or to mix them half and half with coffee; but, after all,
the best economy is to go without.

French coffee is so celebrated, that it may be worth while to tell how
it is made; though no prudent housekeeper will make it, unless she has
boarders, who are willing to pay for expensive cooking.

The coffee should be roasted more than is common with us; it should
not hang drying over the fire, but should be roasted quick; it should