To Prevent Hair Falling Off
Wet the head occasionally in salt and water, and the hair will cease falling off.
Source: Household Gas Cookery Book, Helen Edden
Cough Mixture
1/2 lb. treacle
1d. paregoric
1d. peppermint
1/2 pint boiling water
1d. aniseed
1d. laudanum
Put in a pint bottle and mix well together. Dose, wine-glassful.
Source: The Northampton Cookery Book, M.A. Jeffery
Filed under Remedy | Tags: aniseed, cough, laudanum, mixture, northampton, paregoric, peppermint, sore throat, throat, treacle | Comment (0)Cure for Cuts and Bruises
Cut fingers and bruises of all kinds if wrapped in a cloth wet in alum water heal with a rapidity that is truly wonderful.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
Flax-Seed Lemonade
To a large tablespoonful of flax-seed, allow a tumbler and a half of cold water. Boil them together till the liquid becomes very sticky. Then strain it hot over a quarter of a pound of pulverized sugar, and an ounce of pulverized gum arabic. Stir it till quite dissolved, and squeeze into it the juice of a lemon. This mixture has frequently been found an efficacious remedy for a cold, taking a wine-glass of it as often as the cough is troublesome.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
Cure for Chilblains
Bathe the feet in hot water, dry thoroughly before the fire, then rub with the following as long as possible. Take a piece of butter the size of a walnut with as much salt as can be worked into it. One or two applications will generally cure the worst cases.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
An Excellent Cough Remedy
Twenty grains tartar emetic;
Forty grains pulverised opium;
Four ounces sweet spirits of nitre;
Two ounces of liquorice;
Twelve tablespoons of honey and one pint of whiskey.
For an adult one dessert-spoonful three times a day, at night, when the cough is troublesome, take the same proportions; for children a teaspoonful and so on according to the age.
Source: Household Recipes, Constance Hatton Hart
Filed under Remedy | Tags: cough, emetic, hart, honey, liquorice, nitre, opium, spirits of nitre, tartar, whiskey | Comment (0)For Scalds and Burns
Apply essence of peppermint to a burn or a scald; it seems to drive out the heat and causes a cool sensation immediately.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book
For Sore Throats
Cut slices of salt pork and simmer a few moments in hot vinegar, and apply to the throat as hot as possible. When this is taken off, as the throat is better, put a bandage of flannel around. A gargle of borax and alum dissolved in soft water is excellent to be used frequently.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
An Excellent Recipe for Hoarseness
At night before going to bed, have ready a pint bowl, into which you have squeezed the juice of half a lemon, add to this one teaspoonful of glycerine, and one or two tablespoons of good whisky or best brandy, pour over boiling water, sweeten well with loaf sugar and drink very hot.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain