The House-Keeper's Guide and Indian Doctor

1851, and one small book promises ice creams, perfumery, soap, furniture polish, a complete system of doctoring — and model letters for every occasion.

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4 recipes in this part of The House-Keeper's Guide and Indian Doctor.

Hop Beer

Turn five quarts of water on six ounces of hops; boil three hours; strain off the liquor; turn on four quarts more of water, and twelve…

Hard Soap

Dissolve twenty weight of white potash in three pailfuls of water. Heat twenty pounds of strained grease, then mix it with the dissolved…

Hectic Cough

Mix the yolks of three eggs, a gill of honey, and a table-spoonful of tar together, then add to them half a pint of Port wine. Place them…

Hollow, Aching Teeth

Mix equal parts of gum camphor, gum opium, and spirits of turpentine; rub them in a mortar to a paste, dip raw cotton in the paste, and put…

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