Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including ..

Break the bark into bits, pour boiling water over it, cover and let it infuse until cold. Sweeten, ice, and take for summer disorders, or add lemon-juice and drink for a bad cold. BEEF TEA. One pound of lean beef, cut into small pieces. Put into a jar without a drop of water; cover tightly, and set in a pot of cold water. Heat gradually to a boil, and continue this steadily for three or four hours, until the meat is like white rags, and the juice all drawn out. Season with salt to taste, and, when cold, skim. EGG WINE. One egg, one tablespoonful and one-half glass of cold water, one glass of sherry, sugar and grated nutmeg to taste. Beat the egg, mixing with it a tablespoonful of cold water; make the wine and water hot, but not boiling; pour it on the egg, stirring all the time. Add sufficient lump sugar to sweeten the mixture, and a little grated nutmeg; put all into a very clean saucepan, set it on a gentle 242 Mother's Cook Book. -fire, and stir the contents one way until they thicken, but do not allow them to boil. Serve in a glass with snippets of toasted bread or plain crisp biscuits. When the egg is not warmed, the mixture will be found easier of digestion, but it is not so pleasant a drink. TOAST WATER. Slices of toast, nicely browned, without a symptom of burning. Enough boiling water to cover them. Cover closely and let them steep until cold. Strain the water, sweeten to taste, and put a piece of ice in each glassful. ONION GRUEL Is excellent for cold. Slice down a few onions and boil them in a pint of new milk, stir in a sprinkle of oatmeal and a very little salt, boil till the onions are quite tender, then sup rapidly and go to bed. Mother's Cook Book. COSMETIQUES. COMPLEXION WASH. Put in a vial one drachm of benzoin gum in powder, one drachm of nutmeg oil, six drops of orange-blossom tea, or apple-blossoms put in half pint of rain-water and boiled ' down to one teaspoonful and strained, one pint of sherry wine. Bathe the face morning and night; will remove all flesh worms and freckles, and give a beautiful complexion. Or, put one ounce of powdered gum of benzoin in pint of whiskey; to use, pat in water in wash-bowl till it is milky, allowing it to dry without wiping. This ia perfectly TO CLEAR A TANNED SKIN. Wash with a solution of carbonate of eoda and a little lemon-juioe; then with Fuller's earth-water, or the juice of unripe grapes. OIL TO MAKE THE HAIR CURL. Olive oil, ' one pound; oil of organam, one drachm; oil of rosemary, one and one-half drachms. WRINKLES IN THE SKIN. White wax, one ounce; strained honey, two ounces; juice of lily-bulbs, two ounces. The foregoing melted and stirred together will remove wrinkles. Mother's Cook Book. PEARL WATER FOR THE FACE. Put half a pound best Windsor soap scraped fine into half a gallon of boiling water; stir it veil until it cools, add a pint of spirits of wine and half an ounce of oil of rosemary; stir well. This is a good cosmetique, and will remove freckles. PEARL DENTIFRICE. Prepare chalk, one-half pound; powdered myrrh, two ounces; camphor, two drachms; orris-root powdered, two ounces. Moisten the camphor with alcohol and mix all well together. WASH FOR A BLOTCHED FACE. Rose water, three ounces; sulphate of zinc, one drachm; mix. Wet the face with it, gently dry it and then touch it over with cold cream, which also gently dry off. PACE POWDER. Take of wheat starch, one pound; powdered orris-root, three ounces; oil of lemon, thirty drops; oil of bergamot, oil of cloves, each fifteen drops. Rub thoroughly together. BANDOLINE. To one quart of rose-water add an ounce and a half of gum-tragacanth; let it stand forty-eight hours, frequently straining it, then strain through a coarse linen cloth; let it stand two days, and again strain; add to it a drachm of oil of roses; need by ladies dressing their hair, to make it lie in any position.