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To Keep Cream Sweet
Cream may be kept sweet twenty-four hours, by scalding it without sugar; by adding as much powdered lump sugar as will make it quite sweet…
Tomato Marmalade
Take full grown tomatoes while quite green, cut out the stems, stew them till soft, rub them through a sieve, set the pulp on the fire…
Transparent Apples
Dissolve and boil a pound of loaf sugar in a quart of water; skim it; put in select apples, pared, quartered and cored, with the juice of a…
To Pickle Butternuts and Walnuts
The nuts for pickling should be gathered as early as July, unless the season is very backward. When a pin will go through them easily, they…
To Pickle Peppers
Procure those that are fresh and green. If you do not like them very fiery, cut a small slit in them, and take the seeds out carefully with…
To Pickle Plums Like Olives
Make a pickle of vinegar, mustard seed, and a little salt, make it boiling hot, then put it over green plums, gathered before they begin to…
To Make Cider Vinegar
After cider has become too sour for use, set it in a warm place, put to it occasionally the rinsings of the sugar basin or molasses jug…
Tomato Catsup
Take one gallon of skinned tomatoes, four table-spoonfuls of salt, four ditto of whole black pepper, half a spoonful of allspice, eight…
To Make Mustard
Put a large tablespoonful of the flour of mustard into a teacup, with a large saltspoonful of salt, mix with it gradually enough cold water…
To Pickle Red Cabbage
Cut the cabbage in thin slices across, put a layer of it in a stone pot, strew a little pepper and salt over, then put another layer of…
To Pickle Beets
Wash beets in cold water, take them of as nearly one size as possible; boil them according to the size, from three quarters of an hour to…
To Pickle Tomatoes
Take the round, smooth, green tomatoes; put them in salt and water, cover the vessel and put them over the fire to scald-that is, to let…
To Pickle Oysters
Procure some of the largest sort of oysters; wash four dozen in their own liquor, and lay them on a folded napkin to dry; strain the…
Twist Candy
To three pounds of loaf sugar put half a pint of water; set it over a slow fire for half an hour; then add to it a teaspoonful of gum…
To Make Mottoes
Cut colored tissue paper in pieces of about four inches width and five long; cut the ends in fine fringe of one inch depth; put in the…
To Extract the Essential Oil of Flowers
Take a quantity of fresh, fragrant leaves, both the stalk and flower leaves; cord very thin layers of cotton, and dip them in fine Florence…
To Keep Eggs Several Months
It is a good plan to buy eggs for family use when cheap, and preserve buy eggs for family use when cheap, and preserve them in the…
To Pot Cheese
Cheese that has begun to mould, can be kept from becoming any more so, by being treated in the following manner: Cut off the mouldy part…
To Preserve Herbs
All kinds of herbs should be gathered on a dry day, just before, or while in blossom. Tie them in bundles, and suspend them in a dry, airy…
To Clean Alabaster
or any other kinds of Marble. -Pound pumice stone to a fine powder, and mix it with verjuice. Let it remain several hours, then dip in a…
To Clean Light Kid Gloves
Magnesia, moist bread, and India rubber, are all of them good to clean light kid gloves. They should be rubbed on the gloves thoroughly. If…
To Restore Rusty Italian Crape
Heat skim milk and water-dissolve in half a pint of it a piece of glue an inch square, then take it from the fire. Rinse the crape out in…
To Clean Stoves and Stone Hearths
Varnished stoves should have several coats of varnish put on in summer, in order to have it get hard, before being used. They should be…
To Cleanse Feather Beds and Mattresses
When feather beds become soiled or heavy, they may be made clean and light by being treated in the following manner: Rub them over with a…
To Cleanse Phials and Pie Plates
Bottles and phials that have had medicine in them, may be cleansed by putting by putting ashes in each one, and immersing them in a pot of…
To Polish Brass, Britannia
and Silver Utensils. -Rotten stone, mixed with a little spirit, is the best thing to clean brass with; rotten stone and oil does very well…
To Destroy Cockroaches, Ants
and other Household Vermin.-Hellebore, rubbed over with molasses, and put round the places that cockroaches frequent, is a very effectual…
Treatment of the Hair
Oil for the Hair. - Take half a pound of southernwood, slightly pounded, and boil it in a pound and a half of old olive oil, and half a…
To Make the Complexion Fair
Take emulsion of bitter almonds one pint, oxymuriate of quicksilver two and a half grains, and sal ammonia one drachm. Use moderately for…
To Blacken the Eye-Lashes
The simplest preparations for this purpose are the juice of elder berries, burnt cork, and cloves burnt at the candle. Some employ the…
To Remove Warts
Touch them gently with sulphuric acid, or with a strong solution of sal ammoniac in water, or with lapis infernalis (blue stone). This will…
To Cure Freckles
Take two ounces of lemon juice, a half drachm of powdered borax, and one drachm of sugar. Mix together, and let them stand in a glass…
The Nails
To give a fine color to the nails, the hands and fingers must be well lathered and washed in scented soap; then the nails should be rubbed…
To Clean the Teeth and Gums
Take an ounce of myrrh in fine powder; two spoonfuls of the best honey, and a little green sage in a very fine powder. Mix them well…
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 well.