shoe blacking.
TO one egg, beaten up, add a table spoonful of ivory black, or lamp black. See likewise the article "leather," in the preceding pages.
shrub, with brandy or rum,
PUT a quart of the finest French brandy into a large bottle, with the juice of two large lemons, the outer rind of one, and about a quarter of a nutmeg; let it stand three days closely corked, and then add a pint and a half of old mountain wine, and three quarters of a pound of loaf sugar; mix them well, and strain the liquor twice through a flannel bag; then bottle it for use. Incomparable rum shrub may be made nearly in the same manner, by procuring the best old Jamaica rum, and substituting it for the brandy. Both might perhaps be improved by having only half the lemon peel, and the like quantity of Seville orange-rind.
shrub, Currant.
IN a quart of rum or brandy, put three quarters of a pint of the strained juice of red or white currants, and the rind of half a Seville orange, with a little nutmeg. When it has stood a day or two closely corked, add a pint of white wine, with three quarters of a pound of loaf sugar, and straining it, as soon as the sugar is dissolved, through a flannel bag, bottle it for use. Red currants will be best for the brandy, and white ones for the rum. Good raisin wine may be used instead of mountain or sherry.
