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Cream Snow
Take a pint of sweet cream, mix with it eight teaspoonfuls of white powdered sugar, the whites of two eggs, and a tablespoonful of…
Currant-water Ice
Press the juice from ripe currants, strain it clear; to one pint of juice put a pound of loaf sugar, put to it a pint of water, and freeze…
Cranberry, Grape, and Currant Jelly
Wash, and drain the fruit till nearly dry; put it in an earthen jar; put the jar in a kettle of water; set the kettle where the water will…
Calf's Feet Jelly
Take four scalded feet, perfectly clean; boil them in four quarts of water till reduced to one, or till they are very tender; take them…
Common Beer
Allow at the rate of two gallons of water to a handful of hops, a little fresh spruce, or sweet fern, and a quart of bran; boil it two or…
Cucumbers
Gather those that are small and green, and of a quick growth. Turn boiling water on them as soon as picked. Let them remain in it four or…
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; put to it a…
Common Twist
Boil three pounds of common sugar and one pint of water, over a slow fire, for half an hour, without skimming. When boiled enough, take it…
Cologne Water
Pour a quart of alcohol gently on the following oils:-on two drachms of the oil of rosemary, two of the oil of lemon, or orange-flower…
Cold Soap
Mix twenty-six pounds of melted and strained grease with four pailfuls of lye, made of twenty pounds of white potash. Let the whole stand…
Cooking Utensils
Cleanliness has been aptly styled the cardinal virtue of cooks. Food is more healthy, as well as palatable, cooked in a cleanly manner…
Colored Silks
Salts of ammonia, mixed with lime, will take out the stains of wine from silk. Spirits of turpentine, alcohol, and clear ammonia, are all…
Cholera Morbus
Take two ounces of the leaves of the Bene plant, put them in half a pint of cold water, and let them soak an hour. Give two table-spoonfuls…
Cramp Remedy
Ten drops of the oil of lavender, taken in a gill of French brandy, and repeated hourly if necessary. Bilious Cholic.- A mixture in equal…
Coughs
For this old Indian remedy, take half a pound of liquorice root, half a pound of brook liverwort, two ounces of elecampane, a quarter of a…
Corns
Take white pine turpentine and spread a plaster, applying it to the corn, after washing the foot thoroughly with warm water and soap, and…
Common Canker
Take a pound of canker root, wash it well and pound it fine. Soak it in warm water three hours, stirring it up well occasionally, so as to…
Convulsion Fits
Make a strong tea of the root called convulsion' root, and take it in doses of a half pint, whenever there is any appearance of the fit…
Cream of Lilies
Take best white castor oil, add a little strong solution of sal tartar in water, and shake it until it looks thick and white. Perfume it…
Compound Cosmetic Oil
Take oil of sweet almonds four ounces, oil of tartar per diliquium two ounces, oil of rhodium four drops; mix the whole together, and use…
Curling the Hair
At any time you may make your hair curl the more easily by rubbing it with the beaten yolk of an egg, washed off afterwards with clear…