A. A red dye obtained from the pulp of a plant which grows in South America and the East and West Indies, and used in colouring cheeses and butter. Q. Does arnotto alter the taste or smell of cheese or butter? A. No; not when the arnotto is genuine. A. A sweet substance, obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugar cane; but it may be obtained from other plants, as beetroot and parsnips. Q. How is sugar made? A. The juice is pressed out of the sugar canes and boiled with lime water, which causes a thick scum to rise to the surface. Q. What is then done? A. The clarified liquor is let off below, and evaporated by boiling. It is then allowed to crystallize by standing in a vessel having holes at the bottom, through which a substance called molasses runs off. That which is left is called muscavado or raw sugar. Q. What is white sugar? A. White sugar is raw or muscavado sugar purified chiefly by means of bullock's blood. Q. From what places is sugar principally obtained? A. From the West Indies, Brazil,Guyana, Java, Mauritius, Siam, Isle of Bourbon, and the Philippine Islands. Q. What is barley sugar? A. Sugar boiled with water and lemon juice into a thick syrup, and afterwards cooled in moulds of a spiral or twisted form. Q. What is sugar candy? A. Sugar candy is made by allowing a thick syrup of sugar and water to crystallize slowly on strings. Q. What is treacle? A. A sweet liquid which drains off in the course of converting raw or muscavado sugar into white or loaf sugar. Q. What is honey? A. A sweet vegetable juice, collected by bees from the flowers of plants. Q. What is the honeycomb? A. A waxen substance made by bees into hexagonal or six-sided cells in which they deposit their honey and eggs. Q. What is bacon? A. Hog's flesh salted or pickled and dried, usually in smoke. Q. What is ham? A. The thigh of a hog salted and dried in smoke. Q. What is brawn? A. The flesh of the boar pickled. A. The fat situated about the loins and kidneys of animals. That of the ox and sheep is chiefly used. Q. What is lard? A. The fat of swine, which, after being melted, is run into bladders. Q. What is tea? A. The dried leaves of an evergreen shrub extensively cultivated in China, Japan, and Assam. It was first imported into Europe by the Dutch in 1610, and was brought into England in 1666. Q. What causes the difference between black and green tea? A. The different manner in which they are prepared. Q. Are then black and green tea made from the same plant? A. Yes; for though there are two species of tea-plants, one called by botanists Thea bohea, after some mountains in China, and the other Thea viridis, both sorts of tea are made alike from each plant. Q. From which plant is the better description of tea made? A. From the Thea viridis; and the inferior kinds from the Thea bohea, which is cultivated near Canton. The finer kinds of both descriptions of tea are made from the young leaves when they first unfold themselves in spring. Q. How are green and black tea prepared? A. The leaves for green tea being roasted almost immediately after they are gathered, and being also dried very quickly, retain more of their natural hue than the black teas, which owe their colour to longer exposure to the air, and to being more slowly dried. Q. Are the finest descriptions of tea sent over to this country? A. No; the finest descriptions of tea cannot bear a voyage, and are spoiled by the slightest damp. Q. To what do scented teas owe their flavour? A. To being mixed, when perfectly dry, with the fresh-gathered flowers of the orange, or some other odoriferous plant. After twenty-four hours the dry tea has absorbed the fragrance of the moist flowers, which are then sifted out. Q. What is coffee? A. The berry of a bush or tree which grows in the East and West Indian Islands, Brazil, Surinam, and Arabia Felix. The best comes from Mocha in Arabia. Q. How are the seeds prepared for use? A. They are first roasted and then ground in a mill. Q. What is chocolate? A. A hard paste, made by grinding the |