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LEMON SHRUB. (See ORANGE OR LEMON SHRUB.)

LEMON SNOW (a pretty dish for a Juvenile party). Pour a pint of cold water over an ounce of isinglass or gelatine. Let it soak for half an hour, then put it in a saucepan over the fire, with three-quarters of a pound of loaf sugar and the thin rind and strained juice of two fresh lemons. Simmer gently, stirring it all the time, until the isinglass is dissolved; then pour it out, and put it aside until it is cold and beginning to set. Stir in the whites of three well-beaten eggs, and whisk all together briskly until it stiffens and assumes the appearance of snow, then pile it lightly in a glass dish, and make it look as rocky as possible. If the uniform whiteness is objected to, a tea-spoonful of the small comfits called hundreds and thousands may be strewn over the top just before serving, or half of the snow may be coloured with two or three drops of cochineal. Time to whisk the snow, half an hour. Probable cost, if made with gelatine, 1s. 3d. Sufficient for eight or ten persons.