SWEET-POTATO RECIPES 647 



fry in dripping until a nice brown ; put all in a d.ep pie dish ; mix the curry 

 powder with a \ pint of stock and pour over the vegetables; cover the dish with 

 a plate, and simmer in the oven for one hour. 



SWEET-POTATO RECIPES : 



"Biscuit" Mash thoroughly four medium-sized cold, boiled potatoes, 

 after removing the skin; stir in 4 table-spoonfuls of flour with a piece of butter 

 the size of a small egg, and add milk to make the consistency of biscuit 

 dough. Roll, cut, place in a well-greased pan, and bake in an oven with 

 moderate heat. 



"Waffles." Add to two heaping table-spoonfuls of boiled potatoes, 

 rubbed through a cullender, a table-spoonful of melted butter, a table-spoonful of 

 sugar, a pint of milk, four table-spoonfuls of flour, one egg well-beaten, a little 

 salt, two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder. Grease the irons thoroughly, fill, and 

 bake brown. Serve with a sauce of half tea-cupful of honey beaten with a 

 tea-cupful of cream. 



" Pudding." Remove the skins of and mash finely six potatoes ; beat 

 with yelks of four eggs a tea-cupful of white sugar and four level tea-spoonfuls of 

 butter. Beat the whites of two eggs as for icing, add grated rind and juice 

 of a small lemon, a little salt, and two tea-cupfuls of cream; stir, then add to 

 other mixture. Put into a buttered dish, and bake an hour and a half. Beat 

 whites of eggs with three table-spoonfuls of sugar, pour over the top. and brown. 



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[S.=SIXHALESE; 7'.=TAMIL]. 



To make Charcoal. Cut the wood in lengths of 2 to 3 feet, and split 

 the stout pieces 2 or 3 inches in thickness. Heap these into a wide pit, com- 

 mencing by making a square chimney in the centre wit'i sticks about 15 inches 

 long laid across each other; pile the wood around this, one piece upon another, 

 laid as closely as possible. Cover the whole with turf or adhesive earth, except 

 the top of the chimney; start the fire in the chimney at the base with dry kind- 

 ling. Carefully stop all outbursts of smoke with soil, and close or open the 

 draught holes (left at the base) according as the fire burns. When the fire is 

 completely extinguished allow the mass to gradually cool. 



Woods for making Charcoal. The following are some of the best 

 charcoal-making woods in Ceylon: Acrotiychia laurifolia ("Ankenda" S. ), 

 Aiienantheni pavonina (" Madatiya" S.), Artocarons uobilis ("Del" S.), Bassia 

 longifolia ("Me"S.), Caryota nrens (" Kitul " S.), Croton laccifcrnm (" Keppi- 

 tiya" S. ), Doona zeylanica ("Dun" S. ), Hcmicyclia scpiaria ( " Vira " S; 

 " Viyarai " 7'.), Trcma orientalis ("Gedumba" S. or "Charcoal-tree"), \Vcndlan- 

 dia notiiniiina (" Rawan-idella" S.) 



Measuring the Height of Trees. Take a staff six feet long, pointed 

 for pressing into the ground. To the centre of the staff fix with screws a piece 

 of board twelve inches wide and exactly square. Fix to this a diagonal strip of 

 straight lath. A plumb line is attached to the board of staff to enable the per- 

 pendicular being obtained; this is indispensable. In measuring a tree the 

 staff is placed at a distance from it, so that with the plumb exactly perpendicular 

 the diagonal lath points to the top of the tree, the person taking the "sight" 

 resting on one knee or reclining to bring the eye to the lower end of the lath. 



