warm
water, and the china or glass articles having been also warmed, the
cement must be applied. It will be proper that the broken surfaces, when
carefully fitted, should be kept in close contact for twelve hours at
least, until the cement is fully set, after which the fracture will be
found as secure as any other part of the vessel, and scarcely
perceptible.

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WAFERS. Dry some flour well, mix with it a little pounded sugar, and
finely pounded mace. Make these ingredients into a thick batter with
cream. Butter the wafer irons, and make them hot; put a tea-spoonful of
the batter into them, bake them carefully, and roll them off the iron
with a stick.

WAINSCOTS. Dirty painted wainscots may be cleaned with a sponge wetted
in potato water, and dipped in a little fine sand. For this purpose
grate some raw potatoes into water, run the pulp through a sieve, and
let it stand to settle; the clear liquor will then be fit for use. If
applied in a pure state, without the sand, it will be serviceable in
cleaning oil paintings, and similar articles of furniture. When an oak
wainscot becomes greasy, and has not been painted, it should be washed
with warm beer. Then boil two quarts of ale, and put into it a piece of
bees' wax the size of a walnut, with a large spoonful of sugar. Wet the
wainscot all over with a brush dipped in the mixture, and when dry, rub
it bright: this will give it a fine gloss.

WALNUT KETCHUP. To make the finest sort of walnut ketchup, boil or
simmer a gallon of the expressed juice of walnuts when they are tender,
and skim it well. Then put in two pounds of anchovies, bones and liquor;
two pounds of shalot, one ounce of mace, one ounce of cloves, one of
whole pepper, and one of garlic. Let all simmer together till the
shalots sink; then put the liquor into a pan till cold; bottle it up,
and make an equal distribution of the spice. Cork it well, and tie a
bladder over. It will keep twenty years, but is not good at first. Be
careful to express the juice at home, for what is sold as walnut ketchup
is generally adulterated. Some people make liquor of the outside shell
when the nut is ripe, but neither the colour nor the flavour is then so
fine.--Another way. Take four quarts of walnut juice, two quarts of
white wine vinegar, three ounces of ginger sliced, two ounces of black
pepper bruised, two ounces of white pepper bruised, half a pound of
anchovies; let these simmer gently, till half the quan