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A Strengthening Jelly for Invalids

1222. One ounce of isinglass, half an ounce of gum arabic, a pint of port-wine; sweeten with sugar-candy or loaf-sugar, and then flavour with cinnamon, or a little nutmeg and lemon-peel. The cinnamon may be boiled in a quarter of a pint of water for an hour; strain, and add the isinglass with another quarter of a pint of water; strain when it is dissolved, and add the other ingredients. Take a wine-glassful the first thing in the morning and the last at night, melted; or eat it cold, taking a piece the size of a nutmeg occasionally. Another. Take three ounces of isinglass, two ounces of candied eringo root, and one ounce each of conserve of roses, pearl-barley, and rice. Put them in two quarts of water, and simmer about five hours till reduced to less than a pint. Put a spoonful of it into tea or any other liquid food, or take it alone.