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the amount of a pint; take 2 pints of syrup; hoil it to a
"ball"(see No. 16), aud add the coffee; put it again on
the fire; boil it to a "pearl"(see No.13), and strain it
through a cloth; bottle it when cold
438. "Worm-wood Synip.
1 ounce of wormwood.
1 lb. ofsugar.
Make nearly a pint of the infusion of wormwood; add
to it 1 lb. of loaf sugar; clarify it (see Nos.6 and 7), and
boil to a"pearl"(see No. 13); when cold, bottle it.
439. Marsh-Mallow _Syrup.
Take 2 ounces of marsh-mallow_ roots; cut them into
small jjieces; bruise them in a mortar, and boil the mal
lows in 1|^ pint of water, till reduced to a pint; then clear
it, .and add 1 lb. of sugar, finishing it in the same way as
capillaire (see No. 429).
440. Syrup of Pinks.
i lb. ofpinks.
1 lb. of sugar.
Pick off all the green parts from half a poimd of pinks;
put the flowers in a mortar, and pound them with a pint
of boiling water; strain the decoction through a cloth;
clarify 1 lb. of loaf sugar (see No.6); boil it to a "ball"
(see No. 16), and add it to the decoction; put it again on
the fire, and boil it to a"pearl"(see No.13). This syrup
may also be made without pounding the flowers,only boil
ing them with the sugar; when done,skim it, and strain
it through a cloth. The dark-red velvety single-pink is
the best for syrup.