Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million: Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic ArtsHale, Sarah Josepha Buell
Philosophy
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million: Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell
Cooking; Home economics
920. _Chamomile and Orange-peel._--For this infusion, take
chamomile-flowers, one ounce; orange-peel, half an ounce; cold water,
three pints; soak together twenty-four hours. Take a tea-cupful four
times a-day.
The chamomile infusion is more agreeable to the taste when cold, and
is less apt to spoil than when made of boiling water.
921. _Wild Cherry-tree Bark._--Take of this bark, dried and bruised,
one ounce; orange-peel, bruised, two drachms; water, one pint. Boil
the bark alone for ten minutes, then add the orange-peel. Take a
wine-glassful, cold, twice a-day.
922. _Dog-wood Bark._--Dog-wood bark, bruised, one ounce; water, one
pint. Boil for twenty or thirty minutes and strain. A wine-glassful
may be given every hour. This is a very good substitute for Peruvian
bark in fever-and-ague.
923. _Sage Tea._--Night sweats have been cured, when more powerful
remedies had failed, by fasting morning and night, and drinking cold
sage tea constantly and freely.
924. _Gentian-root Infusion._--Gentian-root, half an ounce;
orange-peel, pounded, two drachms; hot water, one pint. Let these
stand an hour. This will be found useful in debility of the digestive
organs. A wine-glassful may be given every two or three hours.
925. _Infusion for Rheumatism._--One ounce of gum-guaiacum must be
bruised and put into a pint of French brandy, in which it must remain
for at least thirty hours. When the gum is dissolved, shake the
bottle, and pour a little of this infusion into rather more than a
wine-glassful of tepid water; take this at bed-time, for three nights.
926. _Mixture for Rheumatism._--One ounce of salad mustard must be
simmered in a pint of soft water, till the liquor is reduced to half
a pint; strain it through muslin, and add a pint of milk, fresh from
the cow. Let it boil only two minutes, and take a small tea-cupful,
milk-warm, night and morning.
NUTRITIVE DRINKS.
927. _The best Method of obtaining pure Soft Water for Medicinal
Purposes, without distilling it._--Place an earthen pan in the
fields, at a considerable distance from the smoke of any town, to
catch the rain as it falls. People living in the country, can easily
save this clean, pure rain-water. Set it for an hour in a cool
cellar, or put ice into it, and it is the most reviving drink for a
thirsty invalid.
928. _Toast and Water._--Toast thin slices of bread on both sides
carefully; then pour cold water over the bread and cover it tight for
one hour; or use boiling water, and let it cool.
929. _Waters for cooling Draughts of Preserved or Fresh Fruits--Apple
Water, Lemon Water, &c._--Pour boiling water on the preserved or
fresh fruits, sliced; or squeeze out the juice, boil it with sugar,
and add water.
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