aire.

LENT POTATOES. Beat three or four ounces of almonds, and three or four
bitter ones when blanched, putting a little orange flower water to
prevent oiling. Add eight ounces of butter, four eggs well beaten and
strained, half a glass of raisin wine, and sugar to taste. Beat all
together till quite smooth, and grate in three Savoy biscuits. Make
balls of the above with a little flour, the size of a chesnut; throw
them into a stewpan of boiling lard, and boil them of a beautiful yellow
brown. Drain them on a sieve, and serve with sweet sauce in a boat.

LETHARGY. This species of apoplexy discovers itself by an invincible
drowsiness, or inclination to sleep; and is frequently attended with a
degree of fever, and coldness of the extremities. Blisters and emetics
have often procured relief. The affusion of cold water upon the head,
and the burning of feathers or other fetid substances, held near the
nostrils, are also attended with advantage.

LICE. Want of cleanliness, immoderate warmth, violent perspiration, and
a corrupted state of the fluids, tend to promote the generation of this
kind of vermin. The most simple remedy is the seed of parsley, reduced
to a fine powder and rubbed to the roots of the hair, or to rub the
parts affected with garlic and mustard. To clean the heads of children,
take half an ounce of honey, half an ounce of sulphur, an ounce of
vinegar, and two ounces of sweet oil. Mix the whole into a liniment, and
rub a little of it on the head repeatedly. Lice which infest clothes,
may be destroyed by fumigating the articles of dress with the vapour of
sulphur. Garden lice may be treated in the same way as for destroying
insects.

LIGHT CAKE. Mix a pound of flour, half a pound of currants, and a little
nutmeg, sugar, and salt. Melt a quarter of a pound of butter in a
quarter of a pint of milk, and strain into it two spoonfuls of yeast and
two eggs. Stir it well together, set it before the fire to rise, and
bake it in a quick oven.

LIGHT PASTE. For tarts and cheesecakes, beat up the white of an egg to a
strong froth, and mix it with as much water as will make three quarters
of a pound of fine flour into a very stiff paste. Roll it out thin, lay
two or three ounces of butter upon it in little bits, dredge it with a
little flour, and roll it up tight. Roll it out again, and add the same
proportion of butter, and so proceed till the whole is worked up.

LIGHT PUFFS. Mix two spoonfuls of flo