Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody: an Invaluable Collection of about Eight Hundred Practical Recipes ...

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R.A. Beal, 1873 - 384 pages
 

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Page 353 - Take half a bushel of nice unslacked lime, slack it with boiling water, cover it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been...
Page 12 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true ; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too : For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance ; For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Page 353 - Yellow ochre stirred in makes yellow wash, but chrome goes further, and makes a color generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases the darkness of the shades of course is determined by the quantity of coloring used.
Page 353 - Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle within a large one filled with water. Add five gallons...
Page 73 - ... the use of calomel in the cure of disease. Third — that he has successfully treated Diarrhoea with this article alone. Fourth — that when used as an article of diet, it is an almost sovereign remedy for Dyspepsia and indigestion. Fifth — that it should be constantly used for daily food, either cooked or raw, or in the form of catsup. It is the most healthy article now in use.
Page 370 - THREE little words, you often see, Are articles A, An, and The. A Noun is the name of anything, As School, or Garden, Hoop, or Swing. Adjectives tell the kind of Noun, As Great, Small, Pretty, White, or Brown. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand, Her head, His face, Your arm, My hand. Verbs tell of something being done—- To Read, Count.
Page 371 - The Interjection shows surprise, As Oh! how pretty! Ah! how wise! The Whole are called Nine Parts of Speech, Which reading, writing, speaking teach.
Page 188 - A tea, to a table-spoon, according to the age of the child, and the severity of the case It saved the life of a child when two MD's (Mule Drivers) said it could not be saved.
Page 12 - I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true, For the heaven that smiles above me...
Page 271 - ... qts. Lastly, 30 minutes after the tea, you will give of currier's oil, 3 pts. (or enough to operate as physic). Lard has been used, when the oil could not be obtained, with the same success. The cure will be complete, as the milk and molasses cause the bots to let go their hold, the tea puckers them up, and the oil carries them entirely away. If you have any doubt, one trial will satisfy you perfectly. In places where the currier's oil cannot be obtained, substitute the lard, adding three or...

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