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Peppermint Drops

Rub the inside of a brass or block-tin saucepan with a little oil or butter. Put into it half a pound of powdered and sifted loaf sugar, and two or three table-spoonfuls of water or of strained lemon-juice. Place the saucepan on the fire, and let the syrup boil for ten minutes, then stir into it a dessert-spoonful of the essence of peppermint, or one hundred and twenty drops of the oil of peppermint. Let the mixture fall in drops upon white paper which has been well rubbed over with butter. Probable cost, 1d. per ounce.