A Dish Of Snow

Put twelve large apples into cold water, set them over a slow fire, and when they are soft pour them upon a hair sieve, Take off the skins, and put the pulp into a bason. Then beat the whites of twelve eggs to a very strong froth, beat and sift half a pound of double-refined sugar, and strew it into the eggs. Then beat the pulp of the apples to a strong froth, and beat them all together till they are like a stiff snow, lay it upon a china dish, and heap it up as high as possible. Set round it green knots of paste in imitation of Chinese rails, and stick a sprig of myrtle in the middle of the dish.

Artificial Fruit

At a proper time of the year take care to save the stalks of the fruit with the stones to them. Then get some tins neatly made in the shape of the fruit intended to be made, leaving a hole at the top to put in the stone and stalk. They must be so contrived as to open in the middle, to take out the fruit, and there must also be made a frame of wood to fix them in. Great care must be taken to make the tins very smooth in the inside, otherwise their roughness will mark the fruit; and that they are made exactly the shape of the fruit they are intended to represent. A defect in either of these points will not only give deformity to the artificial fruit, but likewise rob the artist of that honour he might otherwise acquire. Being thus prepared with tins, take two cow-heels and a calf's foot; boil them in a gallon of soft water till they are all boiled to rags, and when reduced to a full quart of jelly, strain it through a sieve. Then put it into a saucepan, sweeten it, put in lemon peel perfumed, and colour it like the fruit intended to imitate. Stir all together, give it a boil, and fill the tins. Then put in the stones and the stalks just as the fruit grows ; and when the jelly is quite cold, open the tins, and put on the bloom, which may be done by carefully dusting on powder-blue. An ingenious person may make great improvement on these artificial fruits ; but it requires great nicety and long practice to perfect them in it.

The hedge-hog, the hen and chickens in jelly, the Solomon's temple, and the eggs and bacon, etc. in flummery, already given, may, with propriety, be classed among the ele-gant ornaments for a grand entertainment.