Household cookery and laundry work

Hot water is frequently used instead of cold, but the water is scarcely so clear and nice. In this case it must cool before being used. The water is put in the jug first and the bread put in, otherwise the bread gets crumbled. It is a most refreshing drink. BARLEY WATER. 2 oz. Barley. ^ Lemon Rind. 1 dessert-spoonful of Sugar. 1 quart Water. Wash the barley well, and put it in a saucepan with a quart of cold water ; add the rind of half a lemon, very thinly pared off, and boil for half an hour, afterwards add the sugar, and strain into a jug to cool. CLEAR BARLEY WATER. 1 table-spoonful of Barley. 3 teacupfuls of Water. Small bit of Lemon Rind. 1 teaspoonful of Sugar. Wash the barley well, and put it in a jug with the lemon rind and sugar; pour over it 3 teacupfuls of boiling water, then cover the jug and stand to get cold, when it may be poured off for use. The barley in those recipes can be used again, as it is said to be better the second than the first time. RICE WATER. 3 oz. Whole Rice. 1 inch Stick Cinnamon. 1 quart Water. Sugar. Wash the rice well, and put it, with the water and cinnamon, into a sauce-pan to boil for an hour, then strain and put aside to cool, when sugar should be added to taste. This is a valuable remedy in cholera, dysentery, and similar sicknesses, but in those cases no sugar should be used. APPLE WATER. 3 Apples. 1 table -spoonful of Sugar. 3 breakfast-cupfuls of Water. £ Lemon Rind. Pare and cut the apples up in small pieces, and put them into a jug, adding the lemon rind and sugar; pour over all the water, boiling; cover the jug and stand aside to cool. LEMON WHEY. 1 Lemon. I 1 breakfast -cupful of Water. 1 breakfast-cupful of Milk. | 1 dessert-spoonful of Sugar. Put the milk and water into a sauce-pan with the juice of a lemon, which boil and strain. The whey part is then sweetened with the sugar, and drank when very hot. This is excellent for a cold, as all wheys are sudorific, or causing perspiration. TREACLE POSSET. 1 breakfast-cupful of Milk. | 1 dessert-spoonful of Treacle. Put both in a small pan to boil ; when it boils let it stand to settle a few minutes, then strain. It will have curdled, as in the previous recipe. The whey part is used very hot for a cold. KOUMISS-A Drink for the Sick. A Stimulating, Nourishing, Effervescing Drink. 1 pint (2 breakfast - cupfuls) 4 pints Sweet Milk. Butter Milk. 5 lumps of Lump Sugar. Mix both kinds of milk together, add the sugar, and pour the whole from one jug to another till the sugar is melted ; it takes about a quarter of an hour. Let it BEVERAGES. stand in a warm corner of the kitchen for 12 hours, covered with muslin ; then bottle it in pint bottles, tie down the corks with string, and in four days it is ready for use. Let the bottles lie on their sides. Pint bottles are most convenient, as when a bottle is opened the koumiss should be soon used. BOSTON CREAM 3 quarts of Water boiled. 1^ lbs. of White Sugar. A Summer Drink. 2 oz. Tartaric Acid. Whites of 2 Small Eggs. teaspoonfuls Lemon Essence. Boil the water and allow it to get cold, then stir in all the other ingredients (beating the 2 whites of eggs stiffly first), and mix well, and put past in bottles for use.