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Buckeye cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Bee Stines.—Any absorbent will give relief from bee stings, but perhaps nothing is more effectual than lean raw meat. The sting of a bee or wasp ‘may be almost instantly relieved by it. It is said to cure the bite of a rattlesnake, and relieve erysipelas. For a CoLtp.—Cayenne pepper-tea for a cold. Puta quarter of a tea- -spoon of cayenne pepper in a tea-cup; pour over hot water and sweeten with sugar. Or, steep horseradish in a gill of vinegar, add a gill of honey, -and take a tea-spoon every twenty minutes. To CurE A CoueH.—Roast a lemon very carefully without burning it; when it is thoroughly hot, cut and squeeze into a cup upon three ounces of sugar, finely powdered. Take a spoonful whenever the cough is trouble- ‘some. It is as good as it is agreeable to the taste. BLACKENED Eyr.—Should the eye or any other part be blackened by a fall | fe aa or blow, apply a cloth wrung out of very warm water, and renew it until the pain ceases. The moisture and heat liquefy the blood, and send it back to its ‘proper channel. Never use cold water to a bruise. For Erysrretas.—A simple poultice made from cranberries pounded fine, and applied in a raw state, is said to be a certain cure; or slip off the outer bark of elder, break up the wood with the inner bark, and steep in ‘buttermilk; drink and apply to the parts-affected. _ a ‘For Sore THroat.—Take five cents worth of chlorate of potash, dissolve, and take a tea-spoon every hour, and also gargle with it. Or, to a tea-cu vinegar add sait and cayenne pepper, making it as strong as can be taken “some add a little pulverized alum),#and gargle often with it. Burns.—Common baking soda—the bicarbonate—has been found to cure burns or scalds, affording immediate relief when it’is promptly applied... For -a dry burn, the soda should be made into paste with water. For a scald or wet burned surface, the powdered soda (or borax will do as well) should be.” -dusted on. ; To RELIEVE TootHAacHE.—Apply powdered alum, or fill mouth with warm water, and immediately after with cold; or saturate a piece of cotton with = _ -a strong solution of ammonia, and apply to the tooth. For toothache and = ‘inflamed face caused by it, apply a poultice of pounded slippery-elm bark rand cold water. ‘ A Goop OvuRE For Coxps-is to boil two ounces of flaxseed in one quart of ~water; strain and add two ounces of rock candy, one-half pint of honey, 4 Bh ge iy M 0 ? y ' 502, : MEDIOAL — - juice of three lemons; mix, and let all boil well; let cool,and bottle. Dose —One cupful before bed, one-half cupful before meals.. The hotter you drink it the better. a Tape Worms are said to be removed by refraining from supper and break- fast, and at eight o’clock taking one-third part of two hundred minced: . pumpkin seeds, the shells of which have been removed by hot water; at nine take another third, at ten the remainder, and follow it at eleven with: | strong dose of castor-oil. For Coup In THE Hrap.—As soon as you feel that you have a cold in the head, put a tea-spoonful of sugar in a goblet, and on it put six drops of cam- phor, stir it, and fill the glass half full of water; stir, till the sugar is dis- solved, then take a dessert-spoonful every twenty minutes. This is a sure: cure if taken as directed. To Prevent Taking Coxtp.—If outin cold weather with insufficient clothing or wrappings, fold a newspaper and spread across.the chest. Per- sons having weak lungs can in this way make for themselves a very cheap. and perfect lung protector. Large papers spread between quilts at night, add much to the warmth. :