as big as a dollar is the usual quantity for a quart of water; but
some put in more, and some less. When it boils, pour in as much milk
as you like and let them boil together three or four minutes. It is
much richer with the milk boiled in it. Put the sugar in either before
or after, as you please. Nutmeg improves it. The chocolate should be
scraped fine before it is put into the water.


TEA.

Young Hyson is supposed to be a more profitable tea than Hyson;
but though the _quantity_ to a pound is greater, it has not so
much _strength_. In point of economy, therefore, there is not much
difference between them. Hyson tea and Souchong mixed together, half
and half, is a pleasant beverage, and is more healthy than green
tea alone. Be sure that water boils before it is poured upon tea. A
tea-spoonful to each person, and one extra thrown in, is a good rule.
Steep ten or fifteen minutes.


PICKLES.

Musk-melons should be picked for mangoes, when they are green and
hard. They should be cut open after they have been in salt water ten
days, the inside scraped out clean, and filled with mustard-seed,
allspice, horseradish, small onions, &c., and sewed up again. Scalding
vinegar poured upon them.

When walnuts are so ripe that a pin will go into them easily, they are
ready for pickling. They should be soaked twelve days in very strong