1 mere purpose of making money, and beans a.s ins title, “ The
2 Wonders of Sympathy and Magnetism, \'c„ by Gerstenbflrgk.'’
3 In India., where the palm, cocoa nutifora, grows, the balers
4 use the juice of it, which is called toddy, ro leaven the cl nigh.
5 At Lahore, where toddy cannot be procured, they employ in place
6 of it a mixture of different spices; and, as the Indus it Lahore
7 would probably like to know what, spiers they are daily eating in
8 their bread and pastry, I therefore take the liberty of giving
9 them the recipe of my Hindostanee baker. It is true the mixture
10 is composed only of innocent drugs, which arc taken in such
11 minute quantities that they can never injure health, and that
12 most of them evaporate during baking. The recipe'runs thus ;-—
13 Musk, nutmegs, cloves,macc, cinnamon, saffron, cardmnum seeds
14 (lesser), ginger, fennel seeds, root of the Lie ml plant, bind-v-red
15 (<"'<) mh ulits argent.), mild inderjuo seeds, shell of the cuttle*
16 Jish, sugar of bamboo, gtnn-tragacantl), mastic, and liquorice-
17 root, of each, one eoriiplo. Some people take also the kernel o:
18 the cotton-seed, or the flowers of (nayole fcrn.i: (a water plant).
19 These different materials are pounded and mixed together, and
20 kept in a small box. When required for use. a small portion is
21 mixed with pollard* or wheaU n flour, and made into a paste with
22 sour milk, in the proportion of otic ucrupL* of spices to three
23 ounces of tire meal. The paste is then enclosed in a cloth, awl
24 in summer the leaven is ready for use on the next day, hut in
25 winter not till the third day. To this they arid three pounds of
26 flour, and, with water, in which a little salt is dissolved, make it
27 into a hard dough, which they knead on a board for half an
28 hour, and then put, some sugar into it. Instead of the latter, I
29 used some sweet potatoes (vwvolvulttt batata w), when they wore
30 in season, boiling, peeling, crushing, and mixing them with tl >
31 dough. These potatoes communicate to the bread an excellent
32 flavour, and ,,-ep it for a longer time soft, and elastic. Tin
33 bread is made in loaves of about the third of a pound in weight,
34 a id is put tp leaven on the Laves of bufea frandom, and after¬
35 wards baked. How strange a mixture (o replace the toddy, and
36 the office of which is performed in our own country by simple yeast.