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and sweeten to taste, and add the juice of two lemons. Add a little more water if the liquid seems too thick. This is soothing in colds. — Boston Cook-Book : Mrs. D. A. Lincoln. Roberts Brothers , Pubs. (By permission) Calamus Candy. “Two cupfuls of small pieces of sliced root, an eighth of an inch in thickness ; cover with cold water, and boil gradually ; then pour off the water, and add a cup and a half of pulverized white sugar, with water ; simmer long and slowly, stirring frequently ; pour out in buttered pans. In Turkey it is considered preventive of contagion.” And he felt new life in his sinews shoot, As he drank the juice of the calamus-root; And now he treads the fatal shore, As fresh and vigorous as before. The Culprit Fay: Joseph Rodman Drake. Delightful Cough Candy. Break up a cupful of slippery-elm bark, and let it soak for an hour in water poured over it in the measuring-cup. Half fill a cup with flaxseed, and fill up to the brim with water, leaving it to soak the same time as the slippery-elm. When you are ready to make the candy, put one pound and a half of brown sugar in a stew-pan over the fire ; pour the water from the slippery-elm and flaxseed over it, straining the last, and stir constantly until it boils and begins to turn back to sugar ; then turn it out, and it will break up into crumbly, small pieces. For preachers or teachers who use their voices too much, it will be found an admirable and agreeable medicine, the EXCELLENT COUGH MIXTURE. taste being peculiarly pleasant. It is highly recommended to any one subject to throat affections. The best flavor for it is a little lemon-juice. — Virginia Cookery-Book : Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith. Harper & Brothers , Pubs. (By peri) Excellent Cough Mixture. Take a handful of hoarhound, boil in a quart of water ; add one pint of Orleans molasses, and one pound of brown sugar. Boil to a thin sirup. Put all in a bottle, and add one tablespoonful of tar. Shake while warm, until the tar is cut into small beads. Dose : Take one tablespoonful whenever the cough is troublesome. Presbyterian Cook-Book , Dayton, O. ( By per.) • Gargle for Sore Throat. Make a gargle of one teaspoonful of molasses, one of salt, and one half-teaspoonful of cayenne-pepper. Mix these with one teacupful of hot water. When cool, add one quarter of a cup of cider-vinegar. Presbyterian Cook-Book. (By permission) Salve. Four ounces of mutton-tallow, two of beeswax, one of rosin, and one-half ounce of gum camphor. Simmer well together ; take off the fire, and then add one gill of alcohol. Good for all kinds of sores and wounds. — Presbyterian Cook-Book : Mrs. W. C. Brown Salve. Two pounds of mutton-tallow, put in as many jimson (Jamestown weed) and plantain leaves as BALSAM LINIMENT. possible ; fry until they crimp up, and then strain. To this add about two tablespoonfuls of tar; let it boil up, then pour it into the vessel in which it is to be kept, and let cool. — Presbyterian Cook-Book. (By permission) Balsam Liniment.