Bay Rum

Ingredients

• Ten cents worth of magnesia
• two quarts each of soft water
• two quarts each of alcohol
• one ounce oil of bay

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve magnesia in rain-water, then add other ingredients.

2. 2

   Wrap filtering paper in form of a funnel, and filter carefully through into a bottle and cork tightly.

3. 3

   When used, dilute with rain-water to whatever strength desired.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 328. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

bay rum, five cents worth of magnesia snow-flake, five cents worth of bergamot, five cents worth of oil of lemon; mix in a pint bottle and fill up with rain-water. To CLEAN JEWELRY.—Any gold jewelry that an immersion in water will] not injure, can be beautifully cleaned by shaking it well in a bottle nearly full of warm soap-suds to which a little prepared chalk has been added, and afterwards rinsing it in clear, cold water, and wiping it on a towel. Mo.rs.—To remove, moisten a stick of nitrate of silver, touch the moles, and they will turn black and sore, and soon they will dry up and fall off of themselves. If they do not entirely go, repeat. It is better, however, never to attempt their removal without consulting a physician. Warts.— Wash with water saturated with common washing soda, and let dry without wiping; repeat frequently until they disappear. Or passa pin through the wart, and hold one end of it over the flame of a candle or lamp until the wart fires by the heat, and it will disappear. STAINS on THE Hanps—from nitrate of silver, may be removed by a solu- tion of chloride of lime. Fruit stains are removed by washing the hands are soap, and holding them over the smoke of burning matches or sul- phur. To Remove SunspurN.—Scrape a cake of brown Windsor soap to a pow- — der, add one ounce eack of eau de Cologne and lemon-juice; mix well and form into cakes. This removes tan, prevents hands from chopping, and makes the skin soft and white. 486 THE ARTS OF THE TOILET, Cotp CREAM FOR CHAPPED Lips.—One-half ounce spermaceti, twenty grains white wax, two ounces pure oil of sweet almonds, one ounce pure glycerine, six drops oil of rose; melt first three. ingredients together, and, when cooling, add the glycerine and oil of rose, stirring until cold. Bap BreatH.—Bad breath, from catarrh, foul stomach, or bad teeth, may be temporarily relieved by diluting a little bromo chloralum with eight or ten pers of water, and using it as a gargle, and swallowing a few drops just efore going out. A pint of bromo chloralum costs fifty cents, but a smal! vial full will last a long time. Fruit StaAins— maybe removed from the fingers in the following manner; Mix together half an ounce of cream tartar and half an ounce of powdered salt of sorrel; apply a solution of this to the fingers, and the stains will dis- appear. Diluted sulphuric acid may be used, but care should be taken that none of it touches any fabric, as the acid will destroy it. FiesH Worms.—Black specks on the nose disfigure the face. Remove by washing thoroughly in tepid water, rubbing with a towel, and applying with a soft flannel a lotion made of three ounces of cologne and half an ounce of liquor of potash. Or press out by putting the hollow end of a watch-key - over it. Lips on Hanps CHAPPED by cold weather or wind, should be rubbed with glycerine generally when about to be exposed to the air, or rubbed with honey after washing. Never kiss the lips of persons not in health, as dis- ease is sometimes contracted in this way, as well as by the use of towels, cups or tumblers used by unhealthy persons. Bay Rum.—Ten cents worth of magnesia, two quarts each of soft water and alcohol, one ounce oil of bay

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.