Dripping, to prepare, etc.—Pour the dripping, if hot, into a saucepanful of boiling water; (if cold, break it up in small pieces and put these in the boiling water;) let it boil up, and then boil for fifteen minutes, stirring it now and again; then pour it all into a large basin, and leave it till perfectly cold, when the dripping will have formed a thick, firm white cake, from the under side of which the impurities, blacks, etc., can easily be scraped. Dripping thus prepared keeps well, and the operation can be