When cold add the orange and lemon juice, with one-fourth a cup of syrup from a jar of preserved ginger, and a piece of ice.

Add water as needed.
=Home-made Soda Water.= INGREDIENTS.
2-1/4 pounds of granulated sugar.
1-3/4 ounces of tartaric acid.
1 pint of water.
Whites of 3 eggs.
1/2 an ounce of ginger extract.
1/4 a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda for each glass.
_Method._--Boil the sugar, water and tartaric acid five minutes.

When nearly cold beat into the syrup the whites of the eggs, beaten until foamy, and the flavoring extract.

Store in a fruit jar, closely covered.
To use, put three tablespoonfuls into a glass half full of cold water, stir in one-fourth a teaspoonful of soda, and drink while effervescing.
A pint of any kind of fruit juice may displace the water, when a teaspoonful of lemon juice should be added to the contents of each glass before stirring in the soda.
=Spanish Chocolate.= (_To serve 60._) INGREDIENTS.
6 quarts of milk.
3 blades of mace.
1 five-inch stick of cinnamon.
12 cloves.
20 pounded almonds.
1 pound of chocolate.
3 cups of sugar.
2 quarts of boiling water.
Yolks of three eggs.
_Method._--Scald the milk with the spices and nuts.

Break up the chocolate and melt over hot water; add the sugar, mix thoroughly, then gradually stir in the boiling water; let cook two or three minutes after all the water has been added, then turn into the hot milk; let stand over hot water until ready to serve, then add the beaten yolks of eggs, diluted with half a cup of water, milk or cream, and strain through a cheese-cloth.