Coffee is adulterated with chicory, roasted beans, peas, and acorns; bat chiefly by chicory. Having your own mill, buy the roasted beans; find out a respectable grocer, ascertain his roasting-days, and always buy from a fresh roast If you like the flavour of chicory, purchase it sepa rate, and add to taste. Chicory, in small quantities is not, as has been represented, injurious, but healthful: because the "taraxacum" root has been used medicinally, and its name has found a place in Pharmacopacias, it has been vulgarly set down as "physic," and thrown to the dogs. The tonic hop might be discarded upon the same pretext. Chicory is a healthful addition to coffee, but you need not pay the coffee price for it. Grind your coffee, and mix with chicory for yourself.

2408. Confections and Sweet MEATS are coloured with poisonous in gradients. Avoid them - there is not the slightest necessity for musing any risk.

2409. Cirry-Powders are but an accumulation of adulterations: - adulterated pepper adulterated coriander, adulterated c cordamoms, adulterated ginger, adulterated spices, and so on. with your spice mill and grater prepare your own from the seeas and roots. You will there by obtain such a curry-powder, and be able to produce 6uchr a curry, as will spread your reputation far and wide. (See 168, 234, 2107,2168.;

2410. Custard and Egg-powders contain wheat, potato, and rice-flours, and are coloured with chrome yellow, or chromate of lead and turmeric. They are not essential articles of household economy.

2411. Gin is adulterated with water, sugar, cayenne, cassia, cinnamon, grains of paradise, sulphuric acid, coriander seed, angelica root, calken root, almond cake, orris root, cardamom seeds, orange peel, and grey and white salts, and is "fined" by alum and salts of tartar. The best way is to purchase the unsweetened gin, for the sweetening is employed to disguise the flavour of various adulterations. If you examine gin through a clean glass, it should have no tint, either of a bluish or yellowish cast. The cheap gins should be avoided, and only the respectable dealers should be resorted to.