Ransom's family receipt book, 1885

ULCERATED SORES. SALT RHEUM, SCROFULA, FEVERSORES, SCALD HEAD.— These are usually obstinate affections, and it will require some perseverance in most diseases of this class to effect a cure. Let the sores be cleansed every morning with soap-suds made of Castile soap and soft water. Apply the Ointment once in 12 hours to the parts affected and to the bottoms of the feet. It will reduce the inflammation, open the pores, extract all the irritating humors and heal the sores without, endangering the health. Our King of the Blood should be used in connection with the Ointment for this class of diseases. See remarks on King of the Blood in other parts of this book. INFLAMED OR SORE EY!£8.— Appiy the Ointment to the temples and eyelids, sides of the nose, and across the back of the neck. It takes out all in¬ flammation and heals them with wonderful rapidity. NERVGU3 PAIN OR IRRITABILITY. —It quiets the nerves at once, and affords the patient ease and. rest, It should be applied, not very profusely, beginning at the temples and passing over the whole surface. NERVOUS OR SICK HEADACHE.— Apply the Ointment freely to the forehead and temples and back of the neck ; also to the soles of the feet and palms of the hands. It. will relieve the severest headache in thirty minutes. (8) King of the Blood cures “ the Bhies.” r1 Pies, Puddings, Desserts , Etc,, Continued, A KERINGU X*X33.— Line two pie-dishes and fill with good apple-sauce, well sweetened, and seasoned with nutmeg. Bake until just done, Draw to the oven door and spread with a meringue made by whipping stiff the whites of three eggs for each pie, sweetening with a table¬ spoonful of sugar for each egg. Beat until you can make a clean cut in it, and spread three-quarters of an inch thick upon each pie. Shut the oven door until the meringue is well set. Do not let it scorch. Eat cold. Iff RS. M.»S RICE PUDDING,- One coffee-cup of rice, four cups of milk, eight tablespoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, butter size of an egg, melted; nutmeg and cinnamon to taste. Wash and pick over the rice and soak in two cups of milk two hours. Then add the rest of the milk, sugar, salt, butter and spice. Bake two hours. “WIGGEM HEAD,” ©X* PLUM PUIMHNG. (Splen- did.) — Three cups of flour, three eggs, one cup ot^raisins, two cups currants, one-half cup of butter, one cup of sweet cream, three teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one of cloves, one of allspice, one- half cup of sugar, one-half cup of molasses. Steam three hours. AM© BUTTER E»UXB©iM©. — Take small slices of bread and butter, enough to fill a medium-sized pudding-dish. Make a custard of one pint of milk, four eggs, one large cup of sugar. Flavor with nutmeg, pour over and bake. ’ramiDARB PUDDING.- Prepare the stalks as for pies* cover the bottom of a buttered pudding dish with slices of bread and butter; cover with the rhubarb cut into short pieces; sprinkle abundantly with sugar; then put on another layer of brekd and butter, and so on until vour dish is full. Cover and steam, while baking, half an hour. Remove the lid and bake ten minutes, or until browned. Eat hot with sauce. ■S® A CHEE 1*1' 'DOING.--1 One quart of bread crumbs, one of aoples.