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8 recipes
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4 recipes
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21 recipes
D
3 recipes
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2 recipes
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5 recipes
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4 recipes
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4 recipes
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7 recipes
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Lemon Jelly
Set on a slow fire a pint of water, with one ounce of rinsed isinglass, in small pieces, and the rind of six lemons; stir…
Whooping Cough
Mix a quarter of a pound of ground elecampane root in half a pint of strained honey and half a pint of water. Put them in a…
Treatment of the Hair & Tooth Powder
Take prepared chalk two ounces, myrrh one drachm, Peruvian bark half an ounce, white sugar one ounce, rose pink one ounce. Mix…
Common Lemon Candy
Take three pounds of coarse, brown sugar; add to it three teacups full of water, and set it over a slow fire for half an hour…
Lemonade
Mix the juice of two lemons with a pint of water, sweetening to the taste. Some like nutmeg grated on it, or some of the squeezed…
Winter
Apples can be kept till June, by taking only those that are hard and sound, wiping them dry, then packing them in tight barrels…