. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences. AND OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. 107 while the nuhility, the higher orders of the peopUs and foreigners, employ gin, brandy, rum, or other sphits. A glass or two of this liquor is taken each forenoon during the winter months, and it generally makes its appearance at lunch. The second application of the fruit of the Rowan Tree as an article of food, is in the form of jelly, jam, or preserve. To make the jelly, put the berries, when ripe and cleanly picked, into a large jar, which is to be placed either in an oven, or in a saucepa
. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences. AND OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. 107 while the nuhility, the higher orders of the peopUs and foreigners, employ gin, brandy, rum, or other sphits. A glass or two of this liquor is taken each forenoon during the winter months, and it generally makes its appearance at lunch. The second application of the fruit of the Rowan Tree as an article of food, is in the form of jelly, jam, or preserve. To make the jelly, put the berries, when ripe and cleanly picked, into a large jar, which is to be placed either in an oven, or in a saucepan of boiling water, until they part with their juice. Strain through a fine sieve, but do not press the berries; weigh the juice, and add to it an equal weight of loaf sugar ; boil them together until they acquire a proper consistence. Rowan jelly thus made has a pleasant, slightly bitter taste, and in appearance resembles that made from red currants. It is eaten in considerable quantity with partridges, the different varieties of wild fowl, &c., which are to be had in any quantity at a trifling price, and constitute a daily dish. The jam is made in the same manner as that of the gooseberry, or any other species of fruit, and forms a good remedy in stomach complaints and sore throats. Lastly, the berries, towards the end of the season, wheu ripe, are collected in great quantities by the boors, for their own consumption, and for that of the nobles on whose estate they live; and are salted, along with various sorts of wild berries, and preserved amongst their winter store in the ice- cellars. During the winter the berries thus kept form a part of their daily meals, and are reckoned antiscorbutic. Far distant, I am afraid, is the period when the fruit of the Mountain-Ash will be applied to any useful purpose by the peasantry of Great Britain, although thus relished and sought after by the more opulent and bet- ter fed boors of the interior of Russia. The Apple Tree, Pyrus Malu
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