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Sand Bags for Cold Hands or Feet

From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886

Serves 1

Make two or three bags and keep them ready for use.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 245. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a sand bag until they get warm. It does not pay to have cold feet if there is any way to get them warm, and a sand bag is better than a soap-stone or bottle of hot water. Get some clean, fine sand, dry it thoroughly in a kettle on the stove, make a bag about eight inches square of flannel

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