101. PATE DE GUIMAUVE.

Take of decoction of marshmallow roots, 4 oz.

water, 1 gallon.

Boil 4 pints and strain: then add gum arabic, half a pound, refined

sugar, 2 lbs. Evaporate to an extract, then take it from the fire,

stir it quickly with the whites of twelve eggs, previously beaten to

a froth: then add, while stirring, half an oz. of orange-flower water.