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So away I went to the kitchen, and heard no more of the talk. But what was I to do? I knew how to eat jumballs very well indeed, but how to make them I knew no more than Mr Parmenter's eyeglass. She forgets, does my Aunt Kezia, that I have lived all my life in Carlisle, where Grandmamma would as soon have thought of my building a house as making jumballs.
There are two or three people that I would give a good deal for, and I am quite sure they will not be here; and I should think Cecilia dear at three-farthings, with Sir Anthony thrown in for the penny. I wish I were making jumballs in the kitchen at Brocklebank, and could have a good talk with my Aunt Kezia afterwards!
So we put in the yolks of eggs, and the almonds, and the flour, and the lemon peel, till it began to smell uncommon good, and then Maria showed me how to make coiled-up snakes of it on the baking-tin, as jumballs always are: and I washed my hands, and took off Fanny's apron, and went back into the parlour. I found there all whom I had left, and Hatty and Flora as well.
To make APRICOCK CUSTARD. To make JUMBALLS another Way.
When I woke, I had been making jumballs in the drawing-room with somebody who was both my Lady Inverness and my Aunt Kezia, and who told me that Colonel Keith had been appointed Governor of the American plantations, and that he would have to be dressed in corduroy. When I arose in the morning, I could and willingly would have thought the whole a dream.
If you would have them in the form of jumballs, boil the sugar to a high candy, but not to sugar again, and pour it on a pie plate; when it will part from the plate cut it, and turn them into what form you please. To candy ORANGES whole another Way. To candy GINGER.
You may make jumballs of any sort of fruit the same way. Boil a stick of cinnamon in a pint of cream, four eggs well beat, leaving out two whites, boil the cream and thicken it with the eggs as for a custard; then put it in your dish, and put over it half a pound of loaf sugar beat and searc'd; heat a fire-shovel red-hot, and hold it over the top till the sugar be brown. So serve it up.
When tea came, and my jumballs with it, my Aunt Kezia says very calmly, "Pass me those jumballs, my dear, will you? Amelia won't want any; she is an uncommon woman, and does not care what she eats. You may give me some, because I am no better than other folks." "O Aunt Kezia, but I like jumballs!" said Amelia. "You do?" says my Aunt Kezia. "Well, but, my dear, they don't grow on trees.
"Maria," said I, "my Aunt Kezia has sent me to make jumballs, and I don't know how, not one bit!" "Don't you, Miss Cary?" said Maria, laughing: "well, I reckon I do. We were going about the buttery, as she spoke, gathering up and weighing these things, and putting them together on the kitchen table.
If you set up to be an uncommon woman, the chances are that instead of rising above the common, you will just sink below it, into one of those silly things that spend their time sipping tea and flirting fans, and making men think all women foolish and unstable. And if you do that well, all I have to say is, may God forgive you! Cary, I want some jumballs for tea. Just go and see to them."
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