Grate as fine as possible stale brown
bread, soak a small proportion in
cream two or three hours, sweeten and
ice it.
BROWN BREAD PUD-
DING.— Grate half a pound each of
stale brown bread, currants, shred suet,
sugar, and nutmeg ; mix the v/hole
with four eggs, and two spoonfuls of
cream, boil in a cloth or basin three or
four hours.
BRUISE. — Apply treacle spread
on brown paper. Or, a plaster of
chopped parsley mixed with butter.
Or, electrify the part. To prevent
BRU
8o
BUG
swelling, apply a cloth five or si* times
doubled, dipped in cold water, and
redipped when it grows warm.
BRUISES. — Cover with linen,
wet with vinegar and wormwood boiled
together. Put a small bit of lard on the
surface, and apply slightly warm. In
very bad cases a leech or two will ex-
pedite the cure.
BRUISES, Embrocation for.
— Pour upon two ounces of carbonate
of ammonia, (smelling salts) as much
distilled vinegar as will dissolve it ; then
add a pint and half of common rectified
spirit, and shake the whole together in
a bottle. It is a good remedy for
sprains and bruises.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS.—
Place in boiling water for fifteen min-
utes, then add sufficient salt, and boil
ten minutes more. Drain them well,
and serve with melted butter✪ Brussels Sprouts.
BUBBLE AND SQUEAK.—
Cut cold boiled or roast beef into slices ;
squeeze and chop some cabbage that
has been dressed ; put both together
into a frying pan, with a little butter,
pepper and salt, if requisite✪ Bubble and Squeak (Beef) ; fry them
for a few minutes ; when done, raise the
cabbage high in the middle of a dish,
and put slices of beef round, fat and
lean alternately.
BUBBLE AND SQUEAK.—
Cold roast veal, cut into tit bits, with
the flower (only) of a cauliflower, and
cut small ; warm in a frying-pan with a
quarter pint of cream, and seasoned with
salt and cayenne pepper✪ Bubble and Squeak (Veal). It is a de-
lightful dish.
BUCHU LEAVES.— They are
diuretic and tonic, and a most valuable
remedy in rheumatism, irritable bladder,
gravel, stricture, &c. They are given
in infusion and tincture. Infuse half an
ounce of leaves in half a pint of boiling
water, for three or four hours. A wine-
glassful for a dose two or three times a
day ; or from one drachm to half an
ounce of the tincture.
BUCKBEAN.— See Robinson's
Herbal. It is a valuable herb in scurvy,
hypochondria, 'ague, rheumatism, erup-
tions, &c. The leaves in infusion.
BUCKtHORN. — See Robin-
son's Herbal. The plant is purgative,
and celebrated in dropsies, rheumatism,
and gout.
BUGS. — Persons who travel often
meet with these vermin, and are sadly
bitten by them. To prevent this, let
your shirt, or night shirt be washed as
ordinarily, well wrung, and then dipped
in a solution of alum, or in a solution
of camphor, and then dried. A sure
preventive.
Consult me
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Grate as fine as possible stale brown bread, soak a small proportion in cream two or three hours, sweeten and ice it.
BROWN BREAD PUD- DING.— Grate half a pound each of stale brown bread, currants, shred suet, sugar, and nutmeg ; mix the v/hole with four eggs, and two spoonfuls of cream, boil in a cloth or basin three or four hours.
BRUISE. — Apply treacle spread on brown paper. Or, a plaster of chopped parsley mixed with butter. Or, electrify the part. To prevent swelling, apply a cloth five or six times doubled, dipped in cold water, and redipped when it grows warm.
BRUISES. — Cover with linen, wet with vinegar and wormwood boiled together. Put a small bit of lard on the surface, and apply slightly warm. In very bad cases a leech or two will expedite the cure.
BRUISES, Embrocation for. — Pour upon two ounces of carbonate of ammonia, (smelling salts) as much distilled vinegar as will dissolve it ; then add a pint and half of common rectified spirit, and shake the whole together in a bottle. It is a good remedy for sprains and bruises.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS.— Place in boiling water for fifteen minutes, then add sufficient salt, and boil ten minutes more. Drain them well, and serve with melted butter.
BUBBLE AND SQUEAK.— Cut cold boiled or roast beef into slices ; squeeze and chop some cabbage that has been dressed ; put both together into a frying pan, with a little butter, pepper and salt, if requisite ; fry them for a few minutes ; when done, raise the cabbage high in the middle of a dish, and put slices of beef round, fat and lean alternately.
BUBBLE AND SQUEAK.— Cold roast veal, cut into tit bits, with the flower (only) of a cauliflower, and cut small ; warm in a frying-pan with a quarter pint of cream, and seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper. It is a delightful dish.
BUCHU LEAVES.— They are diuretic and tonic, and a most valuable remedy in rheumatism, irritable bladder, gravel, stricture, &c. They are given in infusion and tincture. Infuse half an ounce of leaves in half a pint of boiling water, for three or four hours. A wineglassful for a dose two or three times a day ; or from one drachm to half an ounce of the tincture.
BUCKBEAN.— See Robinson's Herbal. It is a valuable herb in scurvy, hypochondria, 'ague, rheumatism, eruptions, &c. The leaves in infusion.
BUCKTHORN. — See Robinson's Herbal. The plant is purgative, and celebrated in dropsies, rheumatism, and gout.
BUGS. — Persons who travel often meet with these vermin, and are sadly bitten by them. To prevent this, let your shirt, or night shirt be washed as ordinarily, well wrung, and then dipped in a solution of alum, or in a solution of camphor, and then dried. A sure preventive.
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