BEVERAGES.
Bounds. The following is a cnrrect formula for making koumis: Best unskimmed milk, oue quart; yeast, (brewer's or old baker's), 100 grains; cane sugar, 200 grains. Mix and keep it at 80' Fahr. until fermentation is brisk, stirring it fre quently, then bottle and secure the corks with wire or stout cord. In twenty-four hours it may be used.
Conger powder, effervescing. Powdered ginger, two drachms; bi-carbonate of soda, ten drachms; white sugar, four ounces; essence of lemon, ten drops. Make into twelve powders which fold into blue papers; each of which is to be accom panied by a white paper containing thirty grains of tartaric acid, and they are to be prepared for use the same as seidlitz powders.
Lemonade, effervescing. Bi-carbonate of potas17, one-half drachm; sugar, two drachms; essence of lemon, ten drops; citric acid, crystal, two scruples; water to fill bottle. Nearly fill a strong mineral water bottle with water. Put in the potash, suoar and lemon, shake up well, add the citric acid' and cork immediately and let it be placed in a cool place upside down until needed for use.
Citrate of Magnesia (effervescent). Take of powdered citric acid, four pounds; calcined magnesia, one and a half pounds; bi-carbonate of soda, three pounds; tartaric acid, three pounds; powdered white sugar, six pounds; oil of lemon, one and a half ounces; rectified spirits a suf ficiency. Mix thoroughly the citric acid with the sugar, add the soda, magnesia and tartaric acid; pass the whole through a sieve to facilitate their mixture; moisten with the spirit, pass the whole through a coarser sieve, and place in a wooden tray to dry in a warm place. When dry add the oil of lemon, and bottle instantly, Effervescing powders, g eanulaied. Mix well dried tartaric acid and bi-carbonate of soda in the proportion of five to six, -with sufficient strong alcohol to reduce the rnixture to a moist condi tion; pass it then through a somewhat coarser sieve, and thoroughly dry it. If desired it niay be flavored with a little oil of lemon dissolved in alcohol. A mixture thus prepared effervesces. on the addition of water, to the last particle.