Pick over and rinse a cpiantity of red raspberries ; put in crock and cover with good cider vinegar. Set in cellar and allow to stand 3 or 4 days. Stir once a day. Put into cheese cloth sack and squeeze through, leaving only the seeds. Then bring to a boil and skim. To every pint of juice stir in grad- ually I pint of sugar✪ Raspberry Vinegar. Boil a short time, making a thin syrup. Put in bottles and seal or in self sealing jars. WASHING FLUID. Mrs. A. Stubbs. One can Babbit’s Potash, dissolved in 6 quarts boiling water. Let this get cold, then add 5 cents’ worth of salts of tartar and a ^5 cent bottle of ammonia. Soak clothes over night, then rub soap on the parts most 180 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. soiled and boil 20 minutes or half an hour in a boiler of water with a half cup of the liquid and half a cake of soap✪ Washing Fluid dissolved in it. Take out of boiler, rinse and hang up. HOME MADE BLUING. Mrs. Abbie L. Greenwood. Dissolve I ounce of soluble blue in i gallon boiling water. When cool put in bottles. HOW TO PACK EGGS. Mrs. G. B. Crane, Chicago. 1 pint liquid glass. 20 pints water. Mix and put eggs into it. TO PACK EGGS. Mrs. E. F. Knollenberg. 1 pound lump lime. 3 gallons rainwater. 1 pint salt. Let it stand 36 hours, pour off and put over the eggs. GOLDEN OINTMENT. Mrs. J. A. Gibson, Pontiac, Mich. 1 lb. lard. 1 oz. laudanum. 1/4 lb. beeswax. 5 oz. organum oil. 1 oz. camphor gum. 5 oz. alcohol. Melt lard and wax together; dissolve other ingredients; then stir all together until cold. Apply to bruises, sores, burns, etc MISCELLANEOUS. ISl ( 182 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. t I JAMES T. TARTT <:> INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ Edv/ardsville, 111. f J R. SUTTER i INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE, f Notary Public. .t. Phones — 83 W and Main 11. i I F. STILLWELL f INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE — LOANS t ^ Edwardsville, 111. f Office Stubbs Buildinq, Main St. I 1 B. DALE ❖ REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD 4* Money Loaned on Real Estate. *C Also Agent Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. % Office Opposite First National Bank. PERCY P. LUSK REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL INSURANCE. Edwardsville, III. £DMONDS & GLASS INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. General Collection Agency. Main St., Opposite First National Bank. ADVERTISEMENTS. 183 LEVERETT & HALL ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. Office, North Side of Court Square. GEORGE LEVERETT X WM. H. HALL I $ t C. GERKE, JR. ABSTRACTER OF TITLES. Madison Store Building. 5HEPPARD & MORGAN CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. Railroad Work, Land Lines and Plats. Office, over Madison Store. SWEAR OUT YOUR COMPLAINTS before QREEZE GLASS, JR, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Edwardsville, Illinois. OSWALD c MEMBER STATE BOARD EXAMINING ARCHITECTS. Offices Edwardsville and Alhambra. West Side Court Square. W. HEINRICH CONTRACTOR AND BRICK LAYER. Cistern Building and Cementing a Specialty. % Repairs Promptly Attended to. J Residence, Metcalf Place Addition. Phone 139 X. 4 184 THE EDWARDSVILLE COOK BOOK. CHAPTER XV. COOKERY FOR THE SICK. This chapter is copied from the “Lincoln Cook Book,” by permission of the Presbyterian Ladies of that city, whose friendly courtesy we acknowledge and appreciate. Mrs. L. L. Hamil. SOLT BOILED EGG. Mrs. J. L. Trinkhaus, Elkhart, (U. of M. Training School for Nurses).

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Pick over and rinse a quantity of red raspberries ; put in crock and cover with good cider vinegar. Set in cellar and allow to stand 3 or 4 days. Stir once a day. Put into cheese cloth sack and squeeze through, leaving only the seeds. Then bring to a boil and skim. To every pint of juice stir in gradually I pint of sugar. Boil a short time, making a thin syrup. Put in bottles and seal or in self sealing jars. WASHING FLUID. Mrs. A. Stubbs. One can Babbit’s Potash, dissolved in 6 quarts boiling water. Let this get cold, then add 5 cents’ worth of salts of tartar and a 5 cent bottle of ammonia. Soak clothes over night, then rub soap on the parts most soiled and boil 20 minutes or half an hour in a boiler of water with a half cup of the liquid and half a cake of soap dissolved in it. Take out of boiler, rinse and hang up. HOME MADE BLUING. Mrs. Abbie L. Greenwood. Dissolve I ounce of soluble blue in i gallon boiling water. When cool put in bottles. HOW TO PACK EGGS. Mrs. G. B. Crane, Chicago. 1 pint liquid glass. 20 pints water. Mix and put eggs into it. TO PACK EGGS. Mrs. E. F. Knollenberg. 1 pound lump lime. 3 gallons rainwater. 1 pint salt. Let it stand 36 hours, pour off and put over the eggs. GOLDEN OINTMENT. Mrs. J. A. Gibson, Pontiac, Mich. 1 lb. lard. 1 oz. laudanum. 1/4 lb. beeswax. 5 oz. organum oil. 1 oz. camphor gum. 5 oz. alcohol. Melt lard and wax together; dissolve other ingredients; then stir all together until cold. Apply to bruises, sores, burns, etc MISCELLANEOUS. ISl ( t I JAMES T. TARTT <:> INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ Edv/ardsville, 111. f J R. SUTTER i INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE, f Notary Public. .t. Phones — 83 W and Main 11. i I F. STILLWELL f INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE — LOANS t ^ Edwardsville, 111. f Office Stubbs Buildinq, Main St. I 1 B. DALE ❖ REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD 4* Money Loaned on Real Estate. *C Also Agent Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. % Office Opposite First National Bank. PERCY P. LUSK REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL INSURANCE. Edwardsville, III. £DMONDS & GLASS INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. General Collection Agency. Main St., Opposite First National Bank. LEVERETT & HALL ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. Office, North Side of Court Square. GEORGE LEVERETT X WM. H. HALL $ t C. GERKE, JR. ABSTRACTER OF TITLES. Madison Store Building. 5HEPPARD & MORGAN CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. Railroad Work, Land Lines and Plats. Office, over Madison Store. SWEAR OUT YOUR COMPLAINTS before QREEZE GLASS, JR, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Edwardsville, Illinois. OSWALD MEMBER STATE BOARD EXAMINING ARCHITECTS. Offices Edwardsville and Alhambra. West Side Court Square. W. HEINRICH CONTRACTOR AND BRICK LAYER. Cistern Building and Cementing a Specialty. % Repairs Promptly Attended to. J Residence, Metcalf Place Addition. Phone 139 X. 4 CHAPTER XV. This chapter is copied from the “Lincoln Cook Book,” by permission of the Presbyterian Ladies of that city, whose friendly courtesy we acknowledge and appreciate. Mrs. L. L. Hamil. SOLT BOILED EGG. Mrs. J. L. Trinkhaus, Elkhart, (U. of M. Training School for Nurses).

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