m one pitcher to another, till
it is as smooth as cream.

FLOATING ISLAND. Mix three half pints of thin cream with a quarter of a
pint of raisin wine, a little lemon juice, orange flower water, and
sugar. Put it into a dish for the middle of the table, and lay on with a
spoon the following froth ready prepared. Sweeten half a pound of
raspberry or currant jelly, add to it the whites of four eggs beaten,
and beat up the jelly to a froth, until it will take any form you
please. It should be raised high, to represent a castle or a
rock.--Another way. Scald a codlin before it be ripe, or any other sharp
apple, and pulp it through a sieve. Beat the whites of two eggs with
sugar, and a spoonful of orange flower water; mix in the pulp by
degrees, and beat all together till it produces a large quantity of
froth. Serve it on a raspberry cream, or colour the froth with beet
root, raspberry, or currant jelly, and set it on a white cream, which
has already been flavoured with lemon, sugar, and raisin wine. The froth
may also be laid on a custard.

FLOOR CLOTHS. The best are such as are painted on a fine cloth, well
covered with colour, and where the flowers do not rise much above the
ground, as they wear out first. The durability of the cloth will depend
much on these two particulars, but more especially on the time it has
been painted, and the goodness of the colours. If they have not been
allowed sufficient space for becoming thoroughly hardened, a very little
use will injure them: and as they are very expensive articles, care is
necessary in preserving them. It answers to keep them some time before
they are used, either hung up in a dry airy place, or laid down in a
spare room. When taken up for the winter, they should be rolled round a
carpet roller, and care taken not to crack the paint by turning in the
edges too suddenly. Old carpets answer quite well, painted and seasoned
some months before they are laid down. If intended for passages, the
width must be directed when they are sent to the manufactory, as they
are cut before painting.

FLOOR CLOTHS CLEANED. Sweep them first, then wipe them with a flannel;
and when the dust and spots are removed, rub with a wax flannel, and dry
them with a plain one. Use but little wax, and rub only with the latter
to give a little smoothness, or it will make the floor cloth slippery,
and endanger falling. Washing now and then with milk, after the above
sweeping and dry rubbing, will