A "health drink" for summer. Make a syrup with:

1 quart water.

2 ounces of whole spices consisting of equal quantities of cloves, stick cinnamon, ginger, coriander, seed and carda-mons.

1 tablespoon powdered gum arabic.

4 pounds honey.

Boil the spices in the water about half an hour, strain into another saucepan, put in the honey, boil up and skim, dissolve the gum in it. Use same as soda syrup, about a gill to each glass of soda. The gum is to produce foam and white of egg answers the same purpose but not to keep long.