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Fig Jelly

Wash the figs, and add water enough to cover the fruit. Boil twenty minutes, strain, then add sugar, and boil ten to twenty minutes. XI. Syrups.

SYRUPS are used principally for their medicinal qualities. Blackberry and elderberry are generally used, but all fruits have more or less cooling, anti-febrile qualities. The directions here given will apply as well to any other berries of which the extract can be gotten, as to blackberries.