Ransom's family receipt book, 1886

EEF STEAK AND MUTTON CHOPS.— Choose the tenderest cuts and broil over a clear hot fire with your wisest skill. Let the steak be rare, the chops well done. Salt and pepper; lay between two hot plates three minutes, and serve to your patient. If he is very weak, do not let him swallow anything except the juice, when he has chewed the meat well. The essence of rare beef, roasted or broiled, thus expressed, is considered by some physicians to be more strengthening than beef tea prepared in the usual manner. ORTE REE. — 1 pint bottle best porter, 2 glasses pale sherry, 1 lemon peeled and sliced, pint ice-water, 6 or 8 lumps loaf sugar, y2 grated nutmeg, pounded ice. This mixture has been used satisfactorily by invalids, for whom the pure porter was too heavy, causing biliousness, and heartburn. TO PREVENT CONSUMPTION.— If you have a cough, use " Ransom’s Hive Syrup and Tolu.” — and fo, the general debility of the system use that excellent tonic and blood purifier, “ King of the Blood.” CALVES-FOQT JELLY. — Boil 4 nicely cleaned calves feet in 3 quarts of water, until reduced to 1, very slowly ; strain and set away until cold, then take off the fat from the top and remove the jelly into a stew-pan , avoiding the settlings, and adding y2 a pound of white powdered sugar, the juice of 2 lemons, and the whites of 2 eggs, the latter to make it transparent Boil all together a few moments and set away in bowls or glasses; it is excellent in a sick room. ¥ 64 King of the Blood ” is a safe remedy 0 KING OF THE BLOOD. The most thorough Purifier of the Blood y?t discovered. CURES ALL HUMORS From a common Eruption to the worst Scrofula,, By its use Cancers are often cured, and Cancerous Tumors are frequently dispersed, without the surgeon’s knife. Scrofula is con¬ quered, Consumption prevented and in some cases actually cured. Mercurial Diseases, ■‘Venereal Taint, Mineral Poii^oas and their effects eradicated, and vigorous health and a sound constitution established. Weafeness and disease; Dropsy, general or par¬ tial ; Swellings, external or internal, and Tumors are reduced, and dispersed in a very short time, Erysipelas, Salt MLlaeum, .Scald Mead, and Fever Sores are soon removed by this powerful detergent medicine, Seorteutfc Diseases, Dandruff, Scaly or Rough Sirin and JPatsapIes quickly give way, leaving the skin smooth and fair. Kiilwey Diseases, Fever and Ague, Disordered Liver, Dyspepsia, . MTaeumaaism, Nervous Affec¬ tions, Gesieral IBetsility, Clircmic 2Mseases, in short, all the numerous diseases caused by bad blood, are conquered and give way before this most powerful corrector— the King of the Blood. In addition to other valuable ingredients, the “ King of the Blood ” con¬ tains the medicinal virtues of three well known flowering weeds or shrubs that are found in our swamps, that are not only perfectly harmless, but are the most thorough purifiers of the blood ever discovered. This medicine is worthy of a fair trial, -and should be taken and used as directed until a com¬ plete cure is established. Each bottle contains between forty and fifty ordinary doses, costing only one dollar ; and i f every afflicted person should use five, or even ten bottles, the expense would be light in comparison to the benefit he w'ould derive from its user. IT CURES EVERY KIND OF HUMOR, A Treatise on Diseases of tSse EJloodl