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1906

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Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Green Tomato Sauce. — Slice green tomatoes and half as many onions. Put a layer of each in kettle and sprinkle one table- spoonful each of salt, ground mustard and brown sugar, one 290 HOW WE COOK IX TENNESSEE. teaspoon black pepper, and spices to taste✪ Green Tomato Sauce, then add another of tomatoes, onions and spices. Cover with strong vinegar; boil twenty minutes. — Mrs. D. W. Hughes. Cantaloupe Pickle. — Slice and peel fine, ripe cantaloupe, pour weak vinegar over it, and let remain over night ; lay them in a colander and measure this vinegar; take the same quantity of strong vinegar, and to every quart allow two pounds brown sugar; let boil one hour and twenty minutes✪ Cantaloupe Pickle. Before taking from the fire put in white mustard seed, cinnamon, mace. — Mrs. H. R. Lancaster. Sweet Pickle Peaches. — Take seven pounds of fruit, three pounds of sugar, and one pint of vinegar. When boiling, put in the fruit ; add a few cloves, spice and some cinnamon ; put these in a muslin bag✪ Sweet Pickle Peaches. Boil twenty minutes. * * * FOR THE SICK. Beef Tea. — One pound of nice lean beef, cut up fine✪ Beef Tea ; put in a large mouth bottle, or jar; set in vessel of cold water and let come to a boil. Boil three hours. Lay a top on the jar, but do not screw it up tight, Turn at once into a sieve, or the beef will soak up the juice. — Mrs. H. R. Lancaster. Beef Extract. — Take a porterhouse steak about one inch thick; remove all fat; boil quickly over a brisk fire. Have ready a teacup, warmed in hot water; place beef in a lemon squeezer, extracting all juice into the cup. Season with salt✪ Beef Extract, Serve at once. Invaluable where solid food cannot be taken. Albumen Water. — To half glass crushed ice add whites of two eggs; beat it then with a fork until it froths nicely; add juice of half a lemon, one teaspoon of sugar, and one teaspoon of whiskey✪ Albumen Water. To be given in cases of fever. HOW AYE COOK IX TENNESSEE. 291 MISCELLANY. POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES. Acids — Sulphuric. Nitric, Muriatic, Oxalic. — Give alkali — soap and soda usually at hand. Provoke vomiting. Give bland drinks and milk. Secure rest. Relieve pain with opium, and stimulate if necessary. Carbolic Acid. — Give Epsom salts, dilute sulphuric acid, glycerine, and oil. Produce vomiting. Stimulate if necessary, Prussic. — Give dilute ammonia water, chlorine water, solu- tion of a salt of iron. Produce vomiting, and stimulate if ne- cessary. Arsenic, Paris Green, Fowler's Solution. — Provoke vomiting. Give hydrated oxide of iron. Magnesia in large quantities. Give milk, butter, and a dose of castor oil. Avoid giving acids. Stimulate if necessary. Nitrate of Silver (lunar caustic). — Give strong solution of common solt and repeat often. This decomposes the poison. Produce vomiting. Mercury, White and Red Precipitate, Corrosive Sublimate, Vermillion. — Albumen, whites of eggs, milk and wheat flour in water. Provoke vomiting. Give some infusion containing tan- nic acid. Antimony, Tartar Emetic, Oxide of Antimony. — Give large drafts of warm water. Provoke vomiting. Give infusion of oak bark. Give raw eggs and milk and a dose of castor oil. Stimu- late if necessary. Phosphorus, Matches, etc. — Give emetics, magnesia and water and mucilaginous drinks freely. Acetate and Sulphate of Zine (white vitrol). — Vomiting will be relieved by large draughts of warm water. Carbonate of 292 HOW WE COOK IX TENNESSEE. Use P. & S. Safe Headache Cure rewsj It is Guaranteed.