water and sugar half an hour. Ferment with good yeast. When the fermenta- tion is nearly over, add 2 quarts of brandy. Bung well for 2 months. Then bottle, and put a lump of white sugar into each bottle. Cider will resemble champagne, if you put a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of fine sugar, and a table- spoonful of brandy in a tumbler, and fill it up with sharp cider. CHANTILLY TRIFLE. Bake a rich cake in a mould. When cold, cut it round about two inches from the edge with a sharp knife, taking care not to perforate the bottom, put in a thick custard, and some teaspoonfuls of raspberry jam, and then put on a high whip. CHAPPED HANDS. Rub them night and morning with raw Linseed Oil. CHAPPED HANDS.— Rub a little Glycerine, with a little Borax, upon your hands at night, and wear gloves in bed. Vaseline Salve is excel- lent. CHAPPED HANDS, &c.— Wash with soft soap, mixed with red sand. — Or, wash them in sugar and water. — Or apply a little sal prunello. CHAPPED LIPS. — Clarified honey, a table-spoonful ; pour a few drops of rose or lavender water into it. Apply it to the lips often. — Or, honey, i oz. ; litharge and myrrh, each oz. ; melt, and perfume ; cork well. CHARCOAL, useful proper- ties of. — All sorts of glass vessels and other utensils may be purified from bad smells hy rincing them out with charcoal powder, after the grossest im- purities have been scoured off with sand and potash. Rubbing the teeth, and washing out the mouth with charcoal powder will render the teeth beautifully white, and the breath perfectly sweet. Putrid water is immediately deprived of its smell by charcoal. CHARCOAL MEDICINE.— It is much used in Mexico, and in South America, where few drugs are procura- ble, save those “simples” which the in- genuity and experience of the Indian Herbalists have devised. Freshly-burnt Charcoal, reduced to powder and given in water, is in great repute. It immedl- CHE 1x8 CHE ately removes offensive odours from in- testinal and renal discharges, and puri- fies the breath, it removes offensive exhalations from any part of the body, either given in water, or in the form of [ pills, made up in wheat flour, or gum mucilage. It removes pains about the right shoulder caused by obstructions of the liver. As an antiacid, either alone, or combined with rhubarb, and carbon- ate of soda, it speedily and permanently removes heartburn. Charcoal is a powerful antiseptic, removing, or check- _ ing decay, and must be very valuable in the incipient stages of consumption. CHEESE, as Iced Butter. — Boil a pint of good cream a few minutes with rasped lemon-peel, and a table- spoonful of orange flower water ; when taken off the fire, add 12 yolks of eggs✪ Iced Butter Cheese, well beaten up ; mix all together ; sift, and put into an icing pot to freeze ; whisk it like ices ; ice it so that you may take it up with a spoon to serve like pats of butter stamped, and bits of clean ice appear between as crystals. CHEESE, to Stew. — Cut best Cheshire cheese very thin ; lay it in a toaster ; set it before the fire ; pour a glass of ale over it ; let it stand till it is like a light custard. Serve on toasts hot. CHEESE, to Stew. — Cut a plateful of best cheese✪ Stewed Cheese ; pour upon it a glass of port wine ; grate upon part of it light biscuit unsugared ; pour over it two or three spoonfuls of hot port ; then put the rest of the cheese upon it.

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water and sugar half an hour. Ferment with good yeast. When the fermentation is nearly over, add 2 quarts of brandy. Bung well for 2 months. Then bottle, and put a lump of white sugar into each bottle. Cider will resemble champagne, if you put a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of fine sugar, and a tablespoonful of brandy in a tumbler, and fill it up with sharp cider. CHANTILLY TRIFLE. Bake a rich cake in a mould. When cold, cut it round about two inches from the edge with a sharp knife, taking care not to perforate the bottom, put in a thick custard, and some teaspoonfuls of raspberry jam, and then put on a high whip. CHAPPED HANDS. Rub them night and morning with raw Linseed Oil. CHAPPED HANDS.— Rub a little Glycerine, with a little Borax, upon your hands at night, and wear gloves in bed. Vaseline Salve is excellent. CHAPPED HANDS, &c.— Wash with soft soap, mixed with red sand. — Or, wash them in sugar and water. — Or apply a little sal prunello. CHAPPED LIPS. — Clarified honey, a table-spoonful ; pour a few drops of rose or lavender water into it. Apply it to the lips often. — Or, honey, i oz. ; litharge and myrrh, each oz. ; melt, and perfume ; cork well. CHARCOAL, useful properties of. — All sorts of glass vessels and other utensils may be purified from bad smells hy rincing them out with charcoal powder, after the grossest impurities have been scoured off with sand and potash. Rubbing the teeth, and washing out the mouth with charcoal powder will render the teeth beautifully white, and the breath perfectly sweet. Putrid water is immediately deprived of its smell by charcoal. CHARCOAL MEDICINE.— It is much used in Mexico, and in South America, where few drugs are procurable, save those “simples” which the ingenuity and experience of the Indian Herbalists have devised. Freshly-burnt Charcoal, reduced to powder and given in water, is in great repute. It immedl- CHE immediately removes offensive odours from intestinal and renal discharges, and purifies the breath, it removes offensive exhalations from any part of the body, either given in water, or in the form of pills,made up in wheat flour, or gum mucilage. It removes pains about the right shoulder caused by obstructions of the liver. As an antiacid, either alone, or combined with rhubarb, and carbonate of soda, it speedily and permanently removes heartburn. Charcoal is a powerful antiseptic, removing, or check- _ ing decay, and must be very valuable in the incipient stages of consumption. CHEESE, as Iced Butter. — Boil a pint of good cream a few minutes with rasped lemon-peel, and a tablespoonful of orange flower water ; when taken off the fire, add 12 yolks of eggs, well beaten up ; mix all together ; sift, and put into an icing pot to freeze ; whisk it like ices ; ice it so that you may take it up with a spoon to serve like pats of butter stamped, and bits of clean ice appear between as crystals. CHEESE, to Stew. — Cut best Cheshire cheese very thin ; lay it in a toaster ; set it before the fire ; pour a glass of ale over it ; let it stand till it is like a light custard. Serve on toasts hot. CHEESE, to Stew. — Cut a plateful of best cheese ; pour upon it a glass of port wine ; grate upon part of it light biscuit unsugared ; pour over it two or three spoonfuls of hot port ; then put the rest of the cheese upon it.

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