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Simple PrepArations.

quently ftirring them untill they are of a pro-per thicknefs.

Alfo take the pulp of Caffia of the cane,from the pod, and boil it to a due thicknefs.

Prefs out the pulps of ripe and frefh fruitsthrough a fieve, without any boiling.

REM

R K.

The manner of obtaining the pulp of Caffia fromthe pod is here left to the Operator. The formerDifpenfatory direfted it to be boiled out of thebruifed pod ; by which method the pulp is not ob-tainable perfe&ly pure, as the feeds part with theirmucilage,—though nothing fliould be communica-ted by the pod. The pulp is obtained in the great-eft purity, if the quantity be not largc, by flittingthe pods lengthwife, puihing out the cells and feedswith the fingers, and wafliing the pulp from them.

The quantity extracled at a time ought not, asLewis has obferved, to be great, as it is apt to turnfour by long keeping.

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