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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
3. One, to Cure a Bad Breath. — Cream of tartar and chalk, each oz. ; myrrh, powdered charcoal, 2 drachms ; powdered orris root, % a drachm ; powdered Peruvian bark, 2 drachms. Mix well together. — Rub- bing the gums with salt occasionally destroys the animalcula which probably cause decay and aching of the teeth. 4. Pounded charcoal very fine, 2 ozs. ; Peruvian bark, 1 oz. ; camphor, lA oz. 5. Prepared chalk, orris root, and charcoal, powdered, equal parts. 6. Coffee newly ground fine, mixed with charcoal, is a first rate powder. Scent as you like. 7. Powdered cuttle-fish, 8 ozs. ; pow- dered charcoal, 2 ozs. ; burnt alum, 1 oz. ; powdered myrrh, 1 oz. Mix. TOO 39* TRJE TOOTH TINCTURE. — Mix 6 ounces of tincture of Peruvian bark with half an ounce of sal-ammoniac, .shake them well a few minutes, every time, before the tincture is used. The method of using it is, to take a teaspoonful and hold it near the teeth ; then, with a finger dipped in, rubbing the gums and teeth, which are afterward to be washed with warm water. This tincture not only cures the toothache, but preserves both the teeth and gums, and makes them adhere to each other. TOOTH WASHES.— Tincture of myrrh, diluted with water, and cam- phorated spirits. Or, a solution of borax and camphorated spirit com- bined. TRACING PAPER.— Use Canada balsam dissolved in spirits of wine, and a little turpentine. Apply with a soft brush, or sponge, and hang up to dry. The best tissue paper should be used. TREACLE BEER.— Take 4 lbs. of treacle, 2 ozs. of hops, and % oz. of ginger bruised. Pour upon the same 4 gallons of boiling water. Fer- ment with a small cupful of yeastTreacle Beer. TREACLE PARKIN. — Oat- meal, 4 lbs. ; flour, 1 lb. ; butter, 1 lb. ; treacle, 4 lbs. ; sugar, 1 lb. ; ginger, oz. ; sweet pepper, 1 oz. ; caraway seeds, r oz. ; carbonate of soda, 3 tea- spoonfuls. Add half a cupful of creamTreacle Parkin, which with the treacle, sugar, and butter, must be well rubbed into the meal and flour. Warm the treacle and sugar in the oven, and mix well. — See Parkin, page 293. TREACLE POSSET.— Boil a small basinful of milk, and put in treacle enough to curdle itTreacle Posset. Drink it on retiring to bed. It generally cures a severe cold by producing profuse per- spiration, and dispelling the fever of the patient. TREACLE PUDDING. Make the paste as for other boiled pud- dings, adding treacle, and small raisins, (or without,) according to taste.Treacle Pudding Boil in a cloth three hours. Serve with sweetened melted butter. TREES AND PLANTS, Longevity of.— It is quite difficult to obtain reliable facts from observation in regard to the age of trees, because some species live hundreds and thou- sands of years, and must therefore be watched by many generations of men in order to ascertain their exact age. It is therefore customary to count the rings that are formed in the growth of trees that attain to great age. On this subject Hufeland writes as follows : “ Plants may all, however, be reduced, according to tneir duration cf life, into three principal classes : annual, or pro- perly only semi-annual, which grow up in spring and die in autumn ; biennial, which die at the end of the second year ; and, lastly, perennial, the duration of which extends from four to a thousand years.