COD-LIVER OIL, To take. — This nourishing yet unpleasant
medicine is best taken in new milk, and its disagreeable flavour can be
covered by adding one dram of orange juice✪ Cocoanut Candy, Superior to every eight ounces of oil.
CODS’ SOUNDS (BOILED). — Soak them in warm water for
half an hour, remove the dirty skin, and boil until tender in equal parts of
milk and water. Serve with egg sauce.
COD (TAIL OF). — Rub it with salt, let it hang for a couple
of days, and boil it in water with a little salt until the flesh may be readily
removed from the bones, then take it up, cut into nice pieces, and fry in
batter. Garnish with sprigs of parsley, and serve with shrimp sauce.
COFFEE, To Prepare with Cold Water. — Pour a pint and a half
of cold water upon two ounces of coffee ; boil it till the coffee falls to the
bottom, and when it is clear at the top remove it from the fire, put in a
small piece of isinglass✪ Coffee Prepared with Cold Water to clear it, and when it is settled, pour it off into
a coffee-pot. A small quantity of cold water added the instant it is taken
from the fire is sometimes used to clear it.
COFFEE, To Prepare with Hot Water. — Put into a coffee-pot five
or six teaspoonfuls of newly roasted and ground Mocha or Java coffee,
and pour thereon a quart of boiling water✪ Coffee Prepared with Hot Water; let it stand for five or six
minutes, and then fine it by pouring some into a cup and back again into
the pot ; let it settle, and it is ready to serve. Coffee should be an inlusion,
not a decoction.
COINS, To Take Impressions of. — See Medals.
COLCHICUM ; or, Meadow Saffron. — This plant is found in
moist pastures on heavy land, and is often employed in the garden as an
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ecMn'r It is quite hardy, and grows in any soil, but flourishes best in moist
situations. The beautiful peach-blossom tinted flowers, resembling the
crocus in shape, appear in the autumn before the bulb has quitted its
dormant state, so far as the roots are concerned, and will even burst into
beauty without coming into contact with a particle of earth ; but in this
case it is then necessary to plant them when the flowering is over. Its
foliage beincr somewhat coarse and cumbrous it is advisable to let them leat
in a reserved ground, and afterwards to transplant them to flower where
desired. The plant is regarded as poisonous. ... r
COLD CREAM.— Oil of almonds, one pound ; white wax, four
ounces. Melt, pour into a warm mortar, and add by degrees a pint of
rose-water. It should be light and white.
COLD IN THE HEAD.— Professor Ferrier says that catarrh
may as a rule be checked by using a snuff composed of six drams of
bismuth, two drams of acacia powder, and two grains of hydrochlorate
of morphia. Half of the above quantity to be taken in twenty-four hours.
COLDS, Composition Powder for.— Poplar bark, four ounces;
bayberry, eight ounces ; cinnamon, one ounce ; cayenne, two drams.
Mix, and pass through a sieve till well incorporated. From half a tea-
spoonful to a teaspoonful to be put into half a pint of boiling water, well
sweetened, and to be taken hot at bed-time. As a remedy for colds it is
pronounced to be unrivalled.
COLD, To Disperse a. — Hot, strong lemonade taken at bed-time
will often break up a bad cold. This remedy should certainly command a
trial.
COLIC (FLATULENT), To Relieve. — Dip a flannel in hot
water, wring it as dry as possible, sprinkle it with oil of turpentine, and
apply to the painful part.
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COD-LIVER OIL, To take. — This nourishing yet unpleasant medicine is best taken in new milk, and its disagreeable flavour can be covered by adding one dram of orange juice to every eight ounces of oil.
CODS’ SOUNDS (BOILED). — Soak them in warm water for half an hour, remove the dirty skin, and boil until tender in equal parts of milk and water. Serve with egg sauce.
COD (TAIL OF). — Rub it with salt, let it hang for a couple of days, and boil it in water with a little salt until the flesh may be readily removed from the bones, then take it up, cut into nice pieces, and fry in batter. Garnish with sprigs of parsley, and serve with shrimp sauce.
COFFEE, To Prepare with Cold Water. — Pour a pint and a half of cold water upon two ounces of coffee ; boil it till the coffee falls to the bottom, and when it is clear at the top remove it from the fire, put in a small piece of isinglass to clear it, and when it is settled, pour it off into a coffee-pot. A small quantity of cold water added the instant it is taken from the fire is sometimes used to clear it.
COFFEE, To Prepare with Hot Water. — Put into a coffee-pot five or six teaspoonfuls of newly roasted and ground Mocha or Java coffee, and pour thereon a quart of boiling water; let it stand for five or six minutes, and then fine it by pouring some into a cup and back again into the pot ; let it settle, and it is ready to serve. Coffee should be an inlusion, not a decoction.
COINS, To Take Impressions of. — See Medals.
COLCHICUM ; or, Meadow Saffron. — This plant is found in moist pastures on heavy land, and is often employed in the garden as an
ornament. It is quite hardy, and grows in any soil, but flourishes best in moist situations. The beautiful peach-blossom tinted flowers, resembling the crocus in shape, appear in the autumn before the bulb has quitted its dormant state, so far as the roots are concerned, and will even burst into beauty without coming into contact with a particle of earth ; but in this case it is then necessary to plant them when the flowering is over. Its foliage being somewhat coarse and cumbrous it is advisable to let them leat in a reserved ground, and afterwards to transplant them to flower where desired. The plant is regarded as poisonous. ... r
COLD CREAM.— Oil of almonds, one pound ; white wax, four ounces. Melt, pour into a warm mortar, and add by degrees a pint of rose-water. It should be light and white.
COLD IN THE HEAD.— Professor Ferrier says that catarrh may as a rule be checked by using a snuff composed of six drams of bismuth, two drams of acacia powder, and two grains of hydrochlorate of morphia. Half of the above quantity to be taken in twenty-four hours.
COLDS, Composition Powder for.— Poplar bark, four ounces; bayberry, eight ounces ; cinnamon, one ounce ; cayenne, two drams. Mix, and pass through a sieve till well incorporated. From half a teaspoonful to a teaspoonful to be put into half a pint of boiling water, well sweetened, and to be taken hot at bed-time. As a remedy for colds it is pronounced to be unrivalled.
COLD, To Disperse a. — Hot, strong lemonade taken at bed-time will often break up a bad cold. This remedy should certainly command a trial.
COLIC (FLATULENT), To Relieve. — Dip a flannel in hot water, wring it as dry as possible, sprinkle it with oil of turpentine, and apply to the painful part.
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