Ransom's family receipt book, 1885

APPLE WATER.— I large juicy pippin, the most finely flavored you can get, 3 cups of cold water — 1 quart if the apple is very large. Pare and quarter the apple, but do not core it. Put it on the fire in a tin or porcelain saucepan with the water, and boil, closely covered, until the apple stews to pieces. Strain the liquor at once, pressing the apple hard in the cloth. Strain this again through a finer bag, and set away to cool. Sweeten with white sugar, and ice for drinking. TO CURE “THE BLUES.”— Purify the blood by using “ King of the Blood,” which removes the accumulations in the liver and other vital parts, restores the circulation, and makes an active man out of a lazy one. BEEF 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. PORTER.— x pint bottle best porter, 2 glasses pale sherry, 1 lemon peeled and sliced, % pint ice-water, 6 or 8 lumps loaf sugar, l/2 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 for the general debility of the system use that excellent tonic and blood purifier, “ King of the Blood.” CALVES-FOOT 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 l/2 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. “ King of the Blood ” is a safe remedy. KING OF THE BLOOD. The most thorough Purifier of the Blood yet 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 conquered, Consumption is prevented prevented and in some cases actually cured. Mercurial Diseases. Venereal Taint, Mineral IPoissons and their effects eradicated, and vigorous health and a sound constitution established. Female Weakness and disease; and disease; Dropsy, general or par¬ tial; Swellings, external or internal* and Tumors are reduced and dispersed in a very short time. Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Scaldi Mead, and Fever Sores are soon removed by this powerful detergent medicine. Scrofulous Diseases, Dandruff. Scaly or Rough j SSkin and Pimples quickly ‘^ive way, leaving the skin smooth, and lair. ! Kidney Diseases, Fever and Ague, Disordered j Over, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism , Nervous AfFec- ! lions, General Debility, Chronic Diseases, in short, | all the numerous diseases caused by bad blood, are conquered and give way j before this most powerful corrector— the King of the Blood.