nd it ought to be cut for this purpose
before it comes out into bloom, as indeed is the case with all other
herbs.

SAGE CHEESE. To make this kind of cheese, bruise the tops of young red
sage in a mortar, with some leaves of spinach, and squeeze out the
juice. Mix it with the rennet in the milk, more or less, according as
the taste and colour may be preferred. When the curd is come, break it
gently, and put it in with the skimmer, till it is pressed two inches
above one vat. Press it eight or ten hours, salt and turn it every day.

SAGO. To prevent the earthy taste, soak it an hour in cold water; pour
off the water, and wash it well. Then add more, and simmer it gently
till the berries are clear, with lemon peel and spice, if approved. Add
wine and sugar, and boil all up together.--If intended for the sick, or
those whom disease has left very feeble, boil a teacupful of washed,
sago in a quart of water, and a taste of lemon peel. When thickened,
grate in some ginger, and add half a pint of raisin wine, some brown
sugar, and two spoonfuls of Geneva: boil all up together.

SAGO MILK. Cleanse the sago as in the former article, and boil it slowly
in new milk. It swells so much, that a small quantity will be sufficient
for a quart; and when done, it will be diminished to about a pint. It
requires no sugar or flavouring.

SAGO PUDDING. Boil a pint and a half of new milk, with four spoonfuls of
sago nicely washed and picked; then add lemon peel, cinnamon, and
nutmeg. Sweeten the pudding, mix in four eggs, put a paste round the
dish, and bake it slowly.

SAIL CLOTH. The old mode of painting canvas was to wet it, and prime it
with Spanish brown. Then to give it a second coat of a chocolate colour,
made by mixing Spanish brown and black paint; and lastly, to finish it
with black. This was found to harden to such a degree as to crack, and
eventually to break, the canvas, and so to render it unserviceable in a
short time. The new method, which is greatly superior, is to grind
ninety-six pounds of English ochre with boiled oil, and to add sixteen
pounds of black paint, which mixture forms an indifferent black. A pound
of yellow soap, dissolved in six pints of water over the fire, is mixed
while hot, with the paint. This composition is then laid upon the
canvas, without being wetted as formerly, and as stiff as can
conveniently be done with a brush, so as to form a smooth surface. Two
days afterwards, a second coat of