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Sirup of Cream
Put a pound of white sugar to each pint of fresh sweet cream, boil it, stirring it all the time; put it in a cool place until it is…
Strawberry, Raspberry
and Blackberry Jelly.- The jellies of all these berries are made in a similar manner. er. Take the berries when ripe, and such as are…
Sherbert
Boil in three pints of water six or eight stalks of green rhubarb, and four ounces of raisins or figs; when the water has boiled about half…
Spring Beer
Take a small bunch of sweet fern sarsaparilla, wintergreen, sassafras, prince's pine, cumfrey root, burdock root, nettle root, Solomons'…
Superior Soft Soap
Cut in small pieces a pound and a half of bar soap; put into four quarts of rain water; add four ounces of pure carbonate of soda; dissolve…
Starch
To make good flour starch, mix flour gradually with cold water, so that it may be freed from lumps. Stir in cold water till it will pour…
Self-sealing Envelopes
These are the greatest conveniences among small things that have ever been invented. Those who have once used them will never do without…
Scarlet Fever
The Indian remedy for this disease is white birch root, pulverized fine, and taken in honey in doses of a teaspoonful four times a day, in…
Small Pox
In this disease the symptoms are generally a quickened respiration, and feverish heat of the body, in the first place. Immediately, on any…
Stiff Joints and Shrunken Sinews
To make this ointment, take two pounds of hog's lard, put into it four ounces of melilot (green), stew it well fifteen minutes. Strain it…
Salt Rheum
Take a half pound of swamp sassafras bark, and boil it in enough fresh water to cover it, for the space of half an hour. Take of the water…
Sore Eyes
A teaspoonful of sugar of lead, same quantity of white vitriol, and two ounces of gunpowder, mixed well together in a quart of soft water…
Severe Cases of Dropsy
Boil one pound each of prickly ash bark and sassafras root bark, half a pound of spicewood root bark, three ounces of garlic, four ounces…