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strained into other pots, containing about 24 quarts, and 

 to each pot of" juice is added about three ounces of quick- 

 lime. It is then boiled for a considerable time, till, on 

 taking out a little, and rubbing it between the lingers, it 

 has a •\aAy feel, when it is taken off the fire, and put into 

 smaller pots with mouths six inches in diameter. The mass 

 may now be kept in this state for six or eight months or 

 more, and it is necessary at anv rate to do so for a month 

 or six weeks. When the process is intended to be conti- 

 nued, a small hole is made in the bottom, through which . 

 the syrup drains off. It is then taken out of these pots and 

 put into shallow bamboo baskets, that any remaining syrup 

 may exude ; after which it is put in a cloth, and the syrup 

 is squeezed through the cloth, adding a little water to it 

 occasionally, that it may be more perfectly removed ; the 

 sugar is then dissolved in water, and boiled a second time 

 in wide-mouthed pots, containing only three seers, with 

 not too fierce a fire, adding from time to time a little milk 

 'and water, and stirring it frequently; which is used by these 

 people to clarify it, instead of eggs, which their religion 

 forbids them to touch. The scum is removed as it is thrown 

 up, and when it resumes the waxy feel on rubbing a little 

 of it between the fingers, the process is finished, and the 

 sugar put into small wide-moiuhed pots to cool and cry- 

 stallize ; after which a small hole is bored for the purpose 

 of draining off anv little quantity of syrup that may still 

 exude. The outside of the pots are now covered with cow- 

 dung, and, for the purpose of making the sugar white, or 

 removing any syrup or blackish appearance, the creeping 

 vine, called in the Hindu pa/i/cha-dub, and in Telingas 

 necltj-nas, growing in tanks and marshy places. It is put 

 on the top of the sugar in the pots, and renewed every day. 

 for five or six days : should the sugar, on taking it out of 

 the pots, be blackish, .or less pure towards the bottom ot 

 the loaf, being set upon this plant and renewed daily, will 

 effectually remove that appearance. If it is wrapped in a 

 wet cloth, and renewed twice a day, the sugar will also be- 

 come white; it must be then thoroughly dried, and kept 

 for use. 



*' To make sugar-candy, the sugar must be again dis- 

 solved in water, and boiled in the same manner as before, 

 adding milk to it, in small quantities; the proportion three 

 seer of sugar and half a seer of nnlk, with water to dissolve 

 the sugar. It is then put into other wide- mouthed pots, 

 with but three seer in each pot, putting thin slice-? of 

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