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Keeping fruit for the entire year

Take a glass ampul with an opening capable of
receiving cherries and plums or whatever fruit that
you want. Put in some hot waterfor the space of two
hours. And when your water will be cooled, throw it &
turn the opening upside down on a quite even &
table, & in a room where there is not a bit of air &
of wind. Then en prepare a stopper of new
wax, wrapped in waxed canvas, and adjust it to the
ampul quite precisely in order that it will be all ready to
stop it when you will have put in the fruit. And when you will have
delicately picked with your hand only the fruit that is
not rotten & on a warm & dry day, return to the
well-closed room, where neither wind nor draft may enter,
& put it gently & with dexterity in the bottle. Then
stop the bottle well with the stopper & lute it
& making the lute if it seems good with some quicklime &
oil, & such that no water may enter in. Then put your
bottles in a vat full of water, during the
summerEt lhiver pourceque la cave s, in
a cellar, and in the winter put your bottles
into a basket furnished with some weights & lower
it to the bottom of a deep well. For in the winter
the water of the vat would be too cold if the cellar
is not quite warm, for one needs the water to be like river
water.


Molding

If you want to promptly mold something in demy relief that
comes to hand, fold some paper in five or six doubles,
& place it on the medal & make sure the
paper is folded on the back of the medal so
that it is well secured. Next take a stick, broad at one end
& pointed at the other, well softened and rub well on the
paper, &with the point of the stick retrace
the lines & proceed until you recognize that your impression is well
done. Then, at your convenience, slightly rub oil with a
pinceaulemp on the
>paper impression and cast in tallow or
wax or sulphur, & the paper, without
it burning, will render your design neat, so that you will be able to
mold it later in plaster or tripoli, and then in
lead & other metal.



Polished cardboard of little thickness & a little
moistened is proper. Then if you want, strengthen it with
papier collé on the back.

