^^^i^^i^^i FAMILY RECEIPTS, fe^ BEING A COLLECTION OF ONE HUNDRED OF RARE VALUE, INCLUDING MEDICAL, MECHANICAL, DOMESTj^ & COMPILED BY B. F. WITT.^ CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED BY APPLEGATE. 1854. m i\ § i I ^^^^^^^^^S'^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^f^^^^^ FAMILY RECEIPTS, BEING A COLLECTION OF ONE HUNDRED 2um, nMimAi mw.n OF RARE VALUE, INCLUDING MEDICAL, MECHANICAL, DOMESTIC, &c. COMPILED BY B. F. WITT ^ CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED BY APPLEGATB. 1854, Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1854, By B. F. Witt, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Indiana. STErjEOTYI'EP I'.Y C. F. DRISCOLL, CINCWNATI. T. WBIGHTSONS STEAM PRESS. FAMILY EECEIPTS. MEDICAL. Hydrophobia. Take one pound vinegar, morning, noon and night. Also — To allay the spasms, take one gr. opium, one gr. sal. nitre, one gr. camphor, 2 gr. digitalis, after which a strong decoc- tion of lobelia, to be repeated until vomiting is produced. Lobelia is the stand-by. Also — It is said that a strong decoction, made of the bark of the roots of the white ash, is a certain cure for hydrophobia. Toothache. Take alum and common salt, pulverized in equal quantities ; apply in the tooth with a piece of cotton. Also — ^Use gum copal and chloroform dissolved together. Bleeding of the Nose. Take dry smoked beef, grate fine, and fill the nostrils. Cough Powders. Capsicum, two parts ; ipecacuanha, two parts ; opium, one part, mix ; dose, five gr. every four hours, taken with honey. For a Cold. Take three cents' worth of licorice and three cents' worth of gum Arabic, put them into a quart of warm water, simmer till thoroughly dissolved ; then add three cents' worth of paragoric^ and a like quantity of antimonial wine, let it cool ; and sip when- ever the cough is troublesome. Also — OuQ table-spoonful molasses, two tea-spoonfuls castor oil, one do. spirits camphor, one do. paragoric. Mix and take often. 4 FAMILY RECEIPTS. The above is one of the most effectual remedies for colds and coughs known. Incipient Consumption. Harlem oil, one pint linseed oil, half pint turpentine, 1 oz. sulphur. Boil the above together until the sulphur becomes a liquid ; this will take ten or fifteen minutes ; must boil very slow ; then add, when cold or tepid, one oz. oil of tar, two oz. oil of amber. If cold, heat until they are thoroughly mixed. Dose, for an adult, from ten to fifteen drops, to be taken in the evening previous to retiring. This has cured some cases, to my personal knowledge, that were well-nigh gone with the consumption. It is an excellent remedy for all diseases of the lungs and pipes, and will be found a valuable remedy when measles or similar diseases have affected the lungs. Cholera. Two oz. bi. carbonate soda, one oz. gum guiacum, one oz. cloves, one oz. cinnamon, one oz. hanthoxglum berries, one oz. anise- seed, one oz. white ginger, half to one oz. oil peppermint, three pints best French brandy. Dose, one small tea-spoonful every hour until checked ; more or less as the case may require. Sweat Powders. Two-fifth laudanum, three-fifth cream tartar, one-fifth podo- phyline. To be used same as Dover's Powders. Cathartic Powders. Equal parts pulverized com. ex. colocynth, rhubarb and podo- phyline. Used to regulate the bowels. Dose, for an adult, one-half the size of a grain of corn. Flooding. Take tender spice-wood sprouts, buds or berries, and make a strong tea, which, when cool, is ready for use. Dose, one gill, to be repeated in smaller quantities, as the case may require. The patient must be quiet. Also — Apply cold bandages over the bowels, and one to three pints cold water to be applied with a female syringe. Hemorrhage. One-half grain opium, one gr. sugar of lead, one gr. ipecac- uanha, one gr. capsicum. This, for one dose, to be given every half to three hours. FAMILY RECEIPTS. 5 Also — Oil of fire- weed, or butter- weed, is one of the best of remedies. To be given, in five to twenty drop doses, every ten to thirty minutes. Dropsy. To the extract of elderberry juice add enough French brandy to preserve it. To be used as a beverage. Antibilious Powders. One lb. jalap, two lb. alex. senna, one lb. peppermint plant. Pulverize separately, then mix and pass through a fine sieve. Dose, from a tea to a table-spoonful, to which add a little loaf sugar and one gill boiling water. To be taken on an empty stomach . Used in all cases of bilious and febrile diseases. Neutralizing Mixture. Two dr. pulverized rhubarb, two dr. saleratus, two dr. pepper- mint ; add one pint boiling water and two table-spoonfuls of brandy. Dose, one or two table-spoonfuls every quarter, half, one or two hours, according to symptoms. Used for cholera morbus, cholera infantum, dysentery and summer complaint. Diarrhoea. Take equal parts of the tincture of laudanum, tincture of Cayenne pepper, treble strength ; tincture rhubarb, essence of peppermint, treble strength ; spirits of camphor. Mix in a bottle. Dose, from five to thirty drops, according to the violence of the symptoms. To be repeated every ten or fifteen minutes, if needed, until relief is obtained. Also — In the most severe cases, and after other well-tried rem- edies have failed, a tea of strawberry leaves has checked the disease in a few hours, and restored the patient to health. Bums. Take equal parts flaxseed oil, tallow and beeswax, and melt them together. Also — Cotton saturated with peppermint and sweet oil, and applied to the injured part, immediately gives relief. Also — In any case of burn or scald all the acute sufiering of the patient may be at once and permanently relieved, by sprinkling over the surface a thick layer of wheat flour. 6 FAMILY RECEIPTS. Cancers. Take common garden carrot ; scrape it, and add as much salt as it will dissolve'; bind this to the cancer and repeat as often as it becomes dry ; so continue until a cure is effected. It is also said to be good for warts. This reinedy, though simple, has cured some cases that were entirely hopeless. Sore or Inflamed Breasts. Take one quart strong vinegar, a piece of beef's tallow, the size of a large hen's egg ; a piece of rosin, the size of a common hulled walnut ; do. beeswax ; three inches horseshoe-bar tobacco ; boil till the vinegar is all evaporated, then strain. ' When cold, the above will form a salve which may be spread on a thin cloth and applied. This remedy has often been used to great effect by an old lady of my acquaintance. Bee Stings. A lump of wet saleratus, applied to the sting of a bee or wasp, will stop the pain in a moment and prevent it from swelling. Eestorative Cordial. One oz. comfrey, one oz. Solomon seal, one oz, Columbo root, one oz. gentian root, one oz. chamomile flowers. Bruise all toge- ther ; cover with boiling water, and then add two quarts of wine. Dose, one-half wine-glass full three or five times per day. This is a very useful tonic in all cases of debility. It is valuable in fluor albus and incipient consumption. Warts. Take one-half oz. sulphur, one-half oz. ninety per cent, spirits ; put into an oz. vial, shake them well together, then freely apply to the warts for a few days, once or twice a day, and in a few weeks, or months at most, the warts will disappear ; and so with corns, in like manner. Also — Warts may be cured by washing them with a solution of soda, and allowing it to dry on them. Also — Put a drop of the tincture of iodine on the wart once a day, and it will generally fall off in a week. To Prevent Inflammation of the Breast. Cover the entire of each breast ( leaving a place about the size of a dollar for the child to nurse ) with diacylon plaster, or, in the absence of that, with common adhesive plaster, in from eight to ten hours after delivery. FAMILY RECEIPTS. 7 This acts like a charm ; it keeps clown the fever and all inflam- mation of the breast ; and those who have been troubled with one of the worst of all complaints, need be no more afflicted, by following the above directions. If the child does not nurse, it will make but little if any difference, as the plasters tend to draw the milk out the same as if applied to a sore. I am sure this one receipt, or direction, will be of more value to some women than ten times the cost of the hundred. To Prevent Death by Lockjaw when occasioned by a Wound. Apply beef's gall. Besides its anti-spasmodic properties, the gall drawls from the wound any particle of wood, glass, iron or other substance that may cause irritation. Cramp in the Stomach. Warm water sweetened with molasses or brown sugar, taken freely, will, in many cases, remove cramp in the stomach when opium and other remedies have failed. Erysipelas. A simple poultice, made of cranberries, pounded fine and applied in a raw state, has proved, in many cases, a certain remedy. Small-pox. One table-spoonful of good brewer's yeast, mixed with two table-spoonfuls of cold water, and given three or four times a day to an adult, and in less quantities to children, is a cure for small-pox. Kheumatism. With one pint spirits turpentine thoimighly mix one ounce Barbadoes tar ; rub the parts afflicted well with it, by a hot fire, before retiring, for three successive nights ; then omit three nights ; repeat the application as before, and in like manner a third time, when ordinary cases will yield. Croup. If a child is taken with croup, instantly apply cold ice- water, if possible, suddenly and freely to the neck and chest with a sponge. The breath will be instantly relieved. So soon as pos- sible, let the sufierer drink as much as it can, then wipe it dry, cover it up warm, and soon a quiet slumber will relieve the parent's anxiety. Also — At the first symptom of the disease, wet a napkin or towel folded to about four inches in width, and wind around the 8 FAMILY RECEIPTS. naked throat of the patient, and then take about half a pound of clean, dry cotton-batting and tie it over the napkin so as to retain the animal heat. Give the patient plenty of cold water to drink, and cover it up warm in bed. The cough will cease, the patient will sleep all night and awake well in the morning. Wash in cold water and dress as usual. There is no danger of taking cold, and the dreadful efiects of emetics are all avoided. This remedy has been tested by at least twenty trials withih the last five years, and it has never failed. It is equally efficacious in quinsy, if taken when the disease first manifests itself, as it is also in any other inflammation of the throat. In trying the experiment, don't take it into your head that flannel, or an old stocking, or some other substitute, will answer in place of cotton. Dry cotton- wool, and plenty of it, is a perfect non-conductor of animal heat, and hence it is the best article and only sure reliance. To Stop Bleeding from the Cavity of an Extracted Tooth. Pack the alveolus, from which the blood continues to trickle^ fully and firmly with cotton, moistened in a strong solution of alum and water. Bone Felon. A thimblefull of soft-soap and quicksilver, mixed, and bound tightly over the felon, will draw it to a head in the course of ten or twelve hours. The core can then be removed, and, by the application of the usual poultices, the sore will soon be healed. The remedy is said to be a severe one, but altogether preferable to the disease. Dysentery. Saturate any quantity of the best vinegar with common salt ; to one large table-spoonful of this solution, add four times the quantity of boiling water ; let the patient take of this preparation, as hot as it can be swallowed, one tea-spoonful once every half minute until the whole is drank : this is for an adult. If necessary, repeat the dose in six or eight hours. Carefully avoid keeping this preparation in vessels partaking of the quality of lead or copper. The success of the remedy depends much on preparing and giving the dose as above directed. In order to keep the preparation hot, it would be well to place the cup which contains it in a bowl containing boiling w^ater, otherwise it will cool before being taken. The above has been found entirely efiectual in some recent cases. FAMILY RECEIPTS. 9 Bite of Rattlesnake. A piece of common indigo, made into a paste, witli spirits of camphor, and applied to the wound, will prevent any serious consequences. Skin Diseases. For some eruptions on the face, borax is an excellent remedy. The way to use it, is to dissolve an ounce of borax in a quart of water, and apply this with a fine sponge every evening before going to bed. This will smooth the skin, when the eruptions do not proceed from an insect working under the cuticle. Many persons' faces are disfigured by red eruptions, caused by a small creature working under the skin. A very excellent remedy is to take the flour of sulphur and rub it on the face dry, after washing in the morning ; rub it well with the finger, and then wipe it off with a dry towel. There are many who are not a little ashamed of their faces, who can be completely cured if they follow these directions. POULTICES. Mustard. Into a gill of boiling water, stir one table-spoonful of Indian meal, spread the paste, thus made, upon a cloth, and spread over the paste one tea-spoonful of mustard, as it is prepared for the table, instead of mustard flour. Ginger. This is made like a mustard poultice. Stramonium, or Jamestown Weed. Stir one table-spoonful of Indian meal into a gill of boiling water, and add one table-spoonful of bruised stramonium seed. Wormwood, &c., Are sometimes used for poultices. Steep the herbs in half pint of cold water, and when all the virtues are extracted, stir in a little bran or rye meal. The herbs must not be removed from the liquid. This is a useful application for a sprain or bruise. Hops. Boil one handful of dried hops, in a half pint of water, until the water is reduced to one gill ; then stir in enough Indian meal to thicken it. 10 FAMILY RECEIPTS. Bread and Milk. Put a table-spoonful of the crumbs of stale bread into one gill of milk and give the whole one boil. MISCELLANEOUS. Cream Nectar. To one-half gallon water, two pounds sugar, three ounces tartaric acid, one-half ounce cream tartar, add the white of one egg and a half, moderately beaten. Of this preparation, take three table-spoonfuls to two-thirds of a glass of water, add one- half tea-spoonful of soda — stir, drink, and declare it a good, cool ing beverage. Preserve Beer. Take three pounds hops, three pounds ginger root, and put in a sack, tying up tight ; then, into a kettle with sufficient water to steep, and boil about two hours ; then take the sack out, press the remaining liquid out of it ; then boil the whole to two quarts ; to this add eight gallons molasses, shake well together, put in a keg and bung tight. To each gallon of the above, add from five to fourteen gallons water, shake well together ; then add a little yeast. The keg must be iron-hooped, thick heads, and corked tight when the beer is put up. Washing Fluid. To one pint of soft-soap, add two table-spoonfuls of spirits tur- pentine. If the soap is thin, it may be mixed cold ; but if the soap is thick, it must be warmed while stirring it together. This will make a quantity of soap sufficient to do a common washing. Half a pint of the soap is to be put into as much warm water as will cover the clothes to be w^ashed. Let them then stand thirty minutes, then wring them out and immediately put them in clear, cold water ; rinse well, put them then in boiling suds, and to this suds add one-half pint of the above compound ; let them boil fifteen or twenty minutes, take them through the sudsing water, and through rinsing water, and whiter or cleaner clothes can not be had. Substitute for Gunpowder. One part yellow prussiate of potash, one part sugar, two parts chloride of potash. Dry well, and finely grind separately, and then intimately mix. This has ten times the force of common powder. FAMILYRECETPTS. 11 To Imitate Mahogany. Let the surface be planed smooth, and rubbed with a sokition of nitrous acid. Then apply, with a soft brush, the following mixture : One ounce dragon's blood, dissolved in a pint of spirits of wine, and with the addition of one-third of an ounce of carbonate of soda, mixed and filtered. When the polish diminishes in brilliancy, it may be restored by the use of a little cold linseed oil. Cheap Wash for Wood. Take a clean barrel, that will hold water ; put in a half bushel of fresh quick-lime, and slack it, by pouring over it boiling water sufficient to cover it four or five inches deep, and stir it until slacked. Then dissolve in water, and add two pounds of sulphate of zinc ; ( white vitriol ; ) add sufficient water to bring it to the consistency of thick white- wash. To make the above a pleasing cream color, add four pounds yellow ochre. For a fawn color, take four pounds umber, one pound Indian red, and one-half pound lampblack. To make the wash gray or stone color, add one pound raw umber, and two pounds lampblack. Cheap Wash for Bricks. Take a barrel, and slack one-half bushel of lime, as before mentioned ; then fill the barrel two-thirds full of water, and add one bushel of hydraulic cement, or water lime, dissolved in water, and add three pounds sulphate of zinc. The whole should be of the thickness of paint, ready for use. This wash is improved by the addition of a peck of white sand, stirred in just before using. The color is a pale stone color. To make it a fawn color, add one pound yellow ochre, two pounds raw umber, and one pound lampblack. To make it a drab, add one pound Indian red, one pound umber, and one pound lampblack. To keep a Stove Bright. Make a weak solution of alum water, and mix your British lustre with it ; put two spoonsful to a gill of alum water ; let the stove be cold ; brush it with the mixture ; then take a dry brush, and lustre, and rub the stove till it is perfectly dry. Should any part, before polishing, become dry, and look gray, moisten it with a wet brush and proceed as before ; by two applications a year, it can be kept as bright as a coach body. 12 FAMILY RECEIPTS. To make one Barrel of Soap. Take fourteen pounds of bar-soap, or four gallons of soft-soap, ( soft-soap is best,) tln-ee pounds sal. soda, one pound rosin, pul- verized ; eight ounces of salt, two ounces borax, pulverized ; two ounces spirits turpentine, and five gallons soft water. Put all together, and place over a lire, where it should remain until the ingredients are all melted and thoroughly mixed. Then empty into a barrel, and add twenty-six gallons of soft water, and stir them well together; repeat the stirring every fifteen oi: thirty minutes, for six or eight hours. In twenty-four hours you will have a barrel of the best soap ever used, at a cost of about one dollar. This is good. Try it. Marble Cement. Take plaster of Paris, and soak it in a saturated solution of alum, then bake the two in an oven, the same as gypsum is baked to make it plaster of Paris, after which they are ground to powder. It is then used as wanted ; being mixed up with water like plaster, and applied. It sets into a very hard composition, and is capable of taking a very high polish. It may be mixed with various coloring' minerals to produce a cement of any color, capable of imitating marble. Any one can prepare it. A hard Cement for Seams. A very excellent cement for seams, in the roofs of houses, or in any other exposed places, is made of white lead, dry white sand, and as much linseed oil as will make it into the consistency of putty. This cement gets as hard as stone, in a few weeks. It is excellent for filling up cracks in exposed parts of brick buildings ; and is also a good cement for pointing up the base of chimneys, where they project through the roof of shingled houses. To make Good Butter. The bad smell and taste of old butter may be entirely removed, by working it over in water, mixed with chloride of lime. Take a sufiicient quantity of cold water to work it in, adding twenty- five to thirty drops of chloride of lime to every ten pounds of butter. When it has been worked until the whole has been brought into contact with the water, it should be worked again in pure water, when it will be found to be as sweet as when originally made. Beet Vinegar. Grate the washed beets, express the juice, and put the liquor in a barrel ; cover the bung-hole with gauze and place it in the sun. In a few weeks the vinegar will be good. FAMILY RECEIPTS. 13 Black Indelible Ink. Two quarts of rain-water, one-half pound nutgalls, three ounces gum Senagal, ( Arabic, ) three ounces sulphuret of iron. Soak the nutgalls in three-quarters of the water ; the gum Arabic in one- half of the remaining water, warmed ; the sulphate in the other half. Let them stand in the several vessels forty-eight hours; then mix them, and the ink is made. To prevent Eust or Corrosion. Dip the metallic articles in very dilute nitric acid, and then immerse them in linseed oil and drain off the excess of oil. To Drill Glass. Glass may be easily drilled with a small drill, operated by a bow, and kept moist with spirits of turpentine. Bed Bugs. Alcohol, half pint ; sal. ammoniac, one ounce ; spirits turpen- tine, half pint; corrosive sublimate, one ounce; camphor, one ounce. Put the camphor into the alcohol and dissolve it, then pulverize the sal. ammoniac and corrosive sublimate, and add to it ; after which, put in the turpentine, and shake all well together. This will kill any bed bug it touches ; and on washing the bed- stead, as well as the chinks and crevices of the room with it, they become so unpleasant to this species of night-walkers that they decamp. Moths. A small piece of paper, or linen, just moistened with turpen- tine, and put in a drawer or wardrobe, two or three times a year, will effectually keep out the moths. Musquitoes. To keep from bedrooms, burn a little sugar in the room before retiring and they will not be troublesome. Also — Diluted oil of spearmint, rubbed on man or horse, will keep off these tormentoi's ; a few drops on your pillow at night will give musquitoes a dislike to your society. To prevent Bugs from Eating Vines. Put green tansy around them. Also — Sprinkle common wood ashes on vines, when wet. To drive away Fleas. Scatter pennyroyal about the room and over the beds. 14 TAMILYRECEIPTS. Curing Eeef. The best pieces for corning, are the plates, ribs and brisket. Pack the pieces in casks, giving a very light sprinkling of salt between each layer. Then cover the meat with a pickle, made by boiling in four gallons of water, eight pounds salt, three pounds brown sugar, three ounces saltpetre, one ounce pearla^h, for one hundred pounds of meat. Keep a heavy flat stone on the meat, that it may be well immersed in the pickle. Beef packed in this way will keep good one year. To remove Black Stains from the Skin. To remove stains, caused by wearing mourning, &c.^ take one half ounce cream of tartar, and one-half ounce oxalic acid. Put this mixture into a gallicup, and moisten with a little water, to prevent its becoming too dry and hard, and cover closely. To use it, wet the black stains, on your skin, all over w^th water, and then, with your finger, rub on a little of the mixture ; then immediately wash it ofl' with water, and afterward with soap and water. The black will thus entirely disappear. This mixture, if applied as above, will also remove ink, and all other stains, from the fingers, or linen. Kee'p this jpoioder out of the way of children ; if swallowed^ it is a jQoiso?i. Transplanting Evergreens. The first half of June is the best time, and if carefully and judiciously performed then, not one in twenty will die. When set out in the fall, chey will die universally. A large wheelbar- row-load of swamp muck, filled in around the roots of each tree, is very beneficial. To Destroy Eoaches. Take an earthen bowl, or other high earthen vessel, and fill it half full of molasses and water, made very sweet ; place it on the floor, near the haunts of the insects, and place one or more strips of boards or shingles, with one end resting on the vessel, the other on the floor. The insects, attracted by the odor of the mixture, will ascend these strips and plunge into the mixture, where they will speedily drown. Everything else, which would attract them, must be removed from their reach. To Bleach a Faded Dress. "Wash the dress in hot soda, and boil it until the color appears to be gone, then rinse and dry it in the sun. Should it not be rendered white by these means, lay the dress in the open air, and bleach it for several days. If still not quite white, repeat the boiling. FAMILY RECEIPTS. 15 Gold Solution. Warm one pint of pure rainwater, and dissolve in it two ounces cyanide of potassium ; then one-quarter of an ounce oxid of gold ; the solution at first will be yellowish, but will soon subside to white. To Clean Paint. Smear a piece of flannel in common whiting, mixed to the consistency of common paste, in warm water. Kub the surface to be cleaned quite briskly, and wash off with pure cold water. Grease spots will, in this way, be almost instantly removed, as well as all other filth, and the paint will retain its brilliancy and Deauty unimpaired. How to Make a Cistern. For a cistern to hold twenty -five barrels of water, procure one barrel of water lime, ( hydraulic cement,) and three barrels of clean coarse sand. If your soil is clay, or any kind of compact earth, dig a hole as near the shape of an egg, end down, as far as you can ; mix your cement a little at a" time, and plaster it directly on the earth. You have no need of brick work. When the first coat is dry, put on the second, and perhaps a third, ^ though much thinner than the first. Cover the top with a large flat stone, if procurable, having a man-hole, and place for a pump, broken through the center. A cistern, eight feet in diameter and nine feet deep, will hold one hundred barrels. To Preserve Eggs. One pint quick-lime, one pint salt, to three gallons water. No care is needed in putting in the eggs, as they will be right end up, and will settle just below the surface, if proportioned right. Also — Dip them in boiling water for the space of five or six seconds, then wipe them dry and pack down in oats, with the little ends down ; in two months, turn again, with the large end down, and so continue turning so long as you wish to keep them. Also — Put one pint, or more, of lime into a barrel of water, and one quart of salt. Having made the limewater, take fresh eggs, and drop them on top of the water, when they will settle down safely. You will find either of these much better than salt. Trying Lard. A table-spoonful of salei-atns put in a pailful of lard, soon afl:er it begins to melt, much improves the quality ; but a little atten- tion IS necessary to prevent its burning. 16 FAMILY RECEIPTS. A Good Cement. Take some common lime, and mix it with a quantity of tar— - just enough to make a tough dough ; use it quick, because it becomes hard in a few moments, and will never soak or crumble. This is a first rate cement for the purpose of making swine- troughs, feed-boxes, &c. A Cure for Lice on Farm Stock. When any stock are infected with lice, whether horses, cattle, sheep or hogs, give copperas in tlieir food, every other day, for six or eight days ; say one tea-spoonful to a sheep. If this is followed, I will pledge my word, the prescription . will kill the vermin inside and out, leaving your cattle with a clean stomach and healthy. Gapes in Fowls. Steep lobelia and red pepper in hot water, not boiling, and mix their food with this water, as strong as they will eat it. Also — Put one drop of spirits of turpentine into half a tea- spoonful of water, sweeten with sugar, and give to each chicken. Also — Take a timothy stalk, and rub ofi" the seeds, introduce it into the windpipe, turning it aroiaid as you shove it down, and keep turning it as you draw it out, and the worms will stick to it and be drawn out with it. They will still gape for a while, but in a few hours they will be well. Colic in Horses. Oil of turpentine, two ounces ; sulphuric ether, one ounce ; sweet spirits of nitre, three ounces. Give at a dose ; and repeat it in two hours, if relief is not afforded in that time. The first dose seldom fails. Bots in Horses. Give a quart of molasses, or dissolve sugar with sweet milk. In thirty minutes the horse will be at ease. Then pulverize two ounces of alum, dissolve in a quart of warm water, and drench your horse ; in two hours, give one pound of salts, and he is cured. Films. Apply a tea-spoonful of molasses on the eyeball. Oxen, horses, cows and sheep are relieved in this manner, and no other remedy is equal to it. FAMILY RECEIPTS. 17 Crackers. One quart of flour, with two ounces of butter rubbed in ; one tea-spoonful of saleratus, in a wine-glass of warm water ; half a tea-spoonful of salt, and milk enough to rub it. Beat it half an hour with a pestle, cut it in thin round cakes, prick them, and set them in the oven when other things are taken out. Let them bake till crisp. Bread. Mix dry, and well-rubbed together, two tea-spoonfuls of cream of tartar with one quart of flour ; then dissolve three-quarters of a tea- spoonful of super-carbonate of soda in a sufiicient quantity of sweet milk ; mix the whole together, and bake immediately. If the above directions be strictly followed, bread will be produced of superior quality. To be eaten warm, add a little shortening ; if cold, none is needed. Domestic Yeast. Boil one pound of good flour, one-quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and a little salt, in two gallons of water, for an hour.' When milkwarm, bottle and cork it closely. It will be fit for use in twenty-four hours. One pound of this yeast will make eighteen pounds of bread. Hominy Breakfast Cakes. Mash the cold hominy ,with a rolling-pin, and add a little flour and milk batter, so as to make the whole thick enough to form into little cakes, in the hand, or it may be put on the griddle with a spoon. Bake brown ; eat hot, and declare you never ate any- thing better of the batter kind. Soda Cake. Three cups of flour, two do. loaf sugar, one and a half do. sweet milk, half do. butter, two eggs, whites and yolks beaten up separately ; one and a half tea-spoonfuls cream of tartar, two- thirds do. soda. Beat the sugar, butter and yolks together. Stir the cream of tartar into the flour, and dissolve the sod^ In the milk. This quantity will make what can be baked in . long tins. Virginia Egg Bread. Dissolve one-table-spoonful of butter in three and a half pints of milk; add one quart of Indian meal, half a pint of wheat flour ; a little salt, and two eggs, well beaten ; mix all well together, and bake in a buttered tin. 18 FAMILY RECEIPTS. Preparation for Silver Solution. Take one pint of pure rainwater ; add to it two onnces cyanide of potassium ; shake them together occasionally, until the latter is entirely dissolved, and allow the liquid to become clear ; then add one- quarter of an ounce oxid of silver, which will very speedily dissolve ; and after a short time a clear, transparent solution will be obtained. To Eemove Spots. A few drops of carbonate of ammonia, in a small quantity of warm rainwater, will prove a safe and easy anti-acid, and will change, if carefully applied, discolored spots upon carpets, and indeed all spots, wliether produced by acid or alkalies. If any one has had the misfortune to have a carpet injured by whitewashj, this mil immediately restore it. 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