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My mother's cook book

1902

Page 105

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
' To Drive Away Bed Bugs. — Take the whites of/ four eggs and ten cents' worth of quicksilver, and beat together until a stiff froth. Take a feather, dip in, and apply to the bedstead. Ammonia is not only useful for cleaning, but as a household, medicine. Half a teaspoonful taken in half a tumbler of water is far better for faintness than alcoholic stimulants. In the Temperance Hospital, , in London, it is used with the best results. It was used freely by Lieutenant Greely's Arctic party for keeping up circulation. It is a relief in nervous- ness, headache and heart disturbances. Canned Fruit is much better if opened an hour or two before using, to restore the oxygehi Bhnbarb scalded a few minutes before coQking ■ will require njuch less sugar.