MPERIAL. Put into a stone jar two ounces of cream of tartar, and the
juice and paring of two lemons. Pour on them seven quarts of boiling
water, stir it well, and cover it close. When cold, sweeten it with loaf
sugar; strain, bottle, and cork it tight. This makes a very pleasant and
wholesome liquor; but if drunk too freely, it becomes injurious. In
bottling it off, add half a pint of rum to the whole quantity.

IMPERIAL CREAM. Boil a quart of cream with the thin rind of a lemon, and
stir it till nearly cold. Have ready in a dish or bowl, in which it is
to be served, the juice of three lemons strained, mixed with as much
sugar as will sweeten the cream. Pour this into the dish from a large
tea-pot, holding it high, and moving it about to mix with the juice. It
should be made at least six hours before it is used; and if the day
before, it would be still better.

IMPERIAL WATER. Put into an earthen pan, four ounces of sugar, and the
rind of three lemons. Boil an ounce of cream of tartar in three quarts
of water, and pour it on the sugar and lemon. Let it stand all night,
clear it through a bag, and bottle it.

INCENSE. Compound in a marble mortar, a large quantity of lignum
rhodium, and anise, with a little powder of dried orange peel, and gum
benzoin. Add some gum dragon dissolved in rose water, and a little
civet. Beat the whole together, form the mixture into small cakes, and
place them on paper to dry. One of these cakes being burnt, will diffuse
an agreeable odour throughout the largest apartment.

INDELIBLE INK. Gum arabic dissolved in water, and well mixed with fine
ivory black, will make writing indelible. If the writing be afterwards
varnished over with the white of an egg clarified, it will preserve it
to any length of time.

INDIAN PICKLE. Lay a pound of white ginger in water one night; then
scrape, slice, and lay it in salt in a pan, till the other ingredients
are prepared. Peel and slice a pound of garlic, lay it in salt three
days, and afterwards dry it in the sun. Salt and dry some long pepper in
the same way: then prepare various sorts of vegetables in the following
manner. Quarter some small white cabbages, salt them three days, then
squeeze and lay them in the sun to dry. Cut some cauliflowers into
branches, take off the green part of radishes, cut celery into lengths
of about three inches, put in young French beans whole, and the shoots
of elder, which will look like bamboo. Choose apples