Preserving fruit for the entire year

Take a rounded glass phial, with a large enough opening to receive cherries and plums and whatever fruit you want. Put in some hot water and leave it for two hours, and once your water is cold, throw it out and turn the phial upside down onto its opening on a perfectly even table and in a room where there is not a bit of draft or wind. Then prepare a stopper of fresh wax, wrapped in oilcloth, and adapt it precisely to the glass phial so that it will be ready to stop it once you have put in the fruit. And once you have hand—picked the fruit, only the non—rotten fruit, and on a warm and dry day, withdraw to the room, well closed so that no wind or draft can get in, and put it gently and deftly in the bottle. Then stop the bottle well with the stopper and lute it, making your lute, if you want, with some quicklime and oil, so that no water gets in. Then put your bottles into a tub full of water, in a cellar, during the summer, and in the winter put your bottles into a basket filled with some weights and lower it to the bottom of a deep well. Because in the winter the water in the tub would be too cold if your cellar is not warm enough, because the water needs 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 pinceau lemp 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.

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