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Vanilla Lozenges

Cut up four or five vanilla beans, place them in a mortar with a small quantity of sugar, and pound them to a powder; sift it through a fine sieve, and mix up with two pounds more of sifted sugar on a slab. Form a hollow in the center, and pour in sufficient dissolved gum--or about one-half pound of gum Arabic dissolved in one breakfast cupful of water--to make a stiff paste, and roll it out to about one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Sprinkle the surface with starch powder, and fine sugar, smooth it with the palm of the hand, cut it up into lozenges, place them on wooden trays on the stove, and allow them to dry. Pack them away in tin boxes for use.