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by Lady Roberts when she rejoined him. This Biscuit 
owed its name to Dr. Oliver, a famous physician of Bath, the 
friend of Pope, Warburton, and other eighteenth century 
notabilities. When on his deathbed (1749) the doctor called 
for his coachman, and gave him the recipe for such Biscuits, 
also ten sacks of flour, and a hundred sovereigns. The fortunate 
fellow started a shop, whereat the Biscuits were made, and sold, 
in Green Street, Bath; and there they are still made, and sold 
to the present day. To manufacture these Biscuits: Put two 
ounces of fresh butter into a saucepan, with a quarter of a pint 
of milk, and stir over a gentle fire until the butter is melted ; 
add a pinch of salt, and a dessertspoonful of yeast ; then mix- 
in very smoothly three-quarters of a pound of fine flour; knead 
the mixture well, wrap it in a warmed cloth, put it into a bowl. 
and place it on a warm hearth for a quarter of an hour. Roll it 
out eight or nine times, leaving it at last a quarter-o!-an-inch 
thick. Stamp it into Biscuits with an ordinary cutter; prick 
them well with a fork, and bake them upon tins in a moderate 
oven until the Biscuits are lightly browned, say, for about 
half-an-hour. 
For Macaroon Biscuits, see ‘“‘ Almonds.” A Bavarian recipe 
orders, to blanch, and chop fine half a pound of sweet almonds ; 
then beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth; add half a 
pound of white sugar, and next the chopped nuts. Drop the 
macaroons from a small spoon on to paraffin paper, upon a 
baking sheet, and bake a delicate brown in a moderately hot oven. 
BLACKBERRY. 
THe Bramble, or Blackberry Shrub (Rubus fruticosus), which 
grows in almost every English hedgerow, is familiar to us all. 
Its popular fruit, ripe in the late summer, furnishes citric, and 
malic acids, pectin, and albumin. In 1696 doctors declared 
the ripe berries of the bramble to be a great cordial, and to 
contain a notable restorative spirit. With the ancient Greeks 
Blackberries were a common remedy for gout. Blackberry 
jam, and Blackberry wine are taken nowadays for sore throat in 
many a rustic English home, whilst Blackberry jelly is esteemed 
useful against a feeble circulation, and dropsy therefrom. This 
fruit goes, in some Scotch districts, by the name of “ bumble- 
kites,” from “bumble,” the cry of the bittern, and “ kyte,” 
