if scalded,
without sugar; and by adding as much pounded lump sugar as shall make it
pretty sweet, it will be good two days, by keeping it in a cool place.

MILK PORRIDGE. Make a fine gruel of half grits well boiled, strain it
off, add warm or cold milk, and serve with toasted bread.

MILK PUNCH. Pare six oranges and six lemons as thin as possible, and
grate them afterwards with sugar to extract the flavour. Steep the peels
in a bottle of rum or brandy, stopped close twenty-four hours. Squeeze
the fruit on two pounds of sugar, add to it four quarts of water, and
one of new milk boiling hot. Stir the rum into the above, and run it
through a jelly bag till perfectly clear. Bottle and cork it close
immediately.

MILK OF ROSES. Mix an ounce of oil of almonds with a pint of rose water,
and then add ten drops of the oil of tartar.

MILK SOUP. Boil a pint of milk with a little salt, cinnamon, and sugar.
Lay thin slices of bread in a dish, pour over them a little of the milk,
and keep them hot over a stove without burning. When the soup is ready,
beat up the yolks of five or six eggs, and add them to the milk. Stir it
over the fire till it thickens, take it off before it curdles, and pour
it upon the bread in the dish.

MILKING. Cows should be milked three times a day in the summer, if duly
fed, and twice in the winter. Great care should be taken to drain the
milk completely from the udder; for if any be suffered to remain, the
cow will give less every meal, till at length she becomes dry before her
proper time, and the next season she will scarcely give a sufficient
quantity of milk to pay the expences of her keeping. The first milk
drawn from a cow is also thinner, and of an inferior quality to that
which is afterwards obtained: and this richness increases progressively,
to the very last drop that can be drawn from the udder. If a cow's teats
be scratched or wounded, her milk will be foul, and should not be mixed
with that of other cows, but given to the pigs. In warm weather, the
milk should remain in the pail till nearly cold, before it is strained;
but in frosty weather this should be done immediately, and a small
quantity of boiling water mixed with it. This will produce plenty of
cream, especially in trays of a large surface. As cows are sometimes
troublesome to milk, and in danger of contracting bad habits, they
always require to be treated with great gentleness, especially when
young, or while their teat