RASPBERRY. 587 
it forms an excellent cooling drink. Raspberry tea, infused from 
the leaves, and taken cold, will stay relaxation of the bowels. 
Like the Strawberry, this fruit when eaten does not undergo 
any acetous fermentation in the stomach even of gouty subjects. 
The vinegar is prepared by pouring white wine vinegar repeatedly 
over successive quantities of the fresh, ripe berries, used immedi- 
ately after being gathered, else their fine flavour, which is quickly 
evanescent, becomes lost. Or, the vinegar can be extemporised 
by diluting Raspberry jelly with hot vinegar, this making a 
capital preventive of scurvy at sea. Gerarde teaches that the 
fruit should be give to them that have “weake, and queasie 
stomacks.” Raspberry vinegar with water makesa useful gargle 
for relaxed sore throat. In Russian cookery is prepared 
Smetanik, or Raspberry pudding. Put a pound of fresh, or 
bottled Raspberries, into a small pie dish, and let them stand 
in the oven till they are quite hot, when they must be taken out. 
Whip up a teacupful of good, thick, sour cream with two eggs, 
one tablespoonful of flour, and one spoonful of white moist sugar. 
When these are all well beaten together, pour the mixture over 
the Raspberries, and bake the pudding in a very slow oven until 
it is firm. It should be of a light brown colour. Sugar improves 
the flavour of Raspberries. 
In Germany a conserve of this fruit, which has astringent 
effects, is prepared with two parts of sugar to one part of the 
fresh juice expressed from the berries. An excellent home-made 
wine may be brewed from the fermented juice of ripe, sound 
Raspberries, which is admirable against scurvy because of the 
potash salts, the citrates, and malates. “A diet of other way- 
side berries, probably accounted for the cure of those scrofulous 
patients who, a few generations back, travelled hundreds of 
miles to receive the King’s touch. As many as sixty applicants 
sometimes crowded the antechamber of our Charles II, and 
might as well have waited to get in touch with an old tom cat ; 
but in many cases the abatement of the afflictions could not be 
doubted, especially when the patients had come long distances ; 
which circumstance seems to have at last opened the eyes of 
such health seekers, who now prefer to treat themselves to a 
peat ogee picnic, or even a hedgerow ramble, as in schoolboy 
ays.” 
RHUBARB, GARDEN. (See Herps). 
