Wheat Gruel for Young Children with weak stomachs, or for Invalids
Tie half a pint of wheat flour in thick cotton, and boil it three or four hours; then dry the lump and grate it when you use it. Prepare a gruel of it by making a thin paste, and pouring it into boiling milk and water, and flavor with salt. This is good for teething children.
Source: Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book, Catherine Beecher
Hallett’s Gout and Bilious Cordial
Infuse in a gallon of distilled aniseed water, 3 oz. Turkey rhubarb, 4 oz. senna leaves, 4 oz. guaiacum shavings, 3 oz. elecampagne root, 1 oz. fennel seed, 14 oz. saffron, 14 oz. cochineal, 1 lb. sun raisins, 1 oz. aniseed; shake it every day for a fortnight; strain and bottle it. A table-spoonful (or two) an hour after dinner.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett
Cure for Hiccough
A good cure for hiccough is slippery elm-bark boiled and made sweet with sugar.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
Seidlitz Powders
Two drachms of Rochelle salts, and two scruples of bicarbonate of soda, in a white paper; thirty-five grains of tartaric acid in a blue one.
Dissolve that in the white paper in nearly half a tumbler of water, then add the other powder, dissolved in another half tumbler of water.
Syrup mixed with the water makes it more agreeable. It is a gentle laxative.
Source: Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book, Catherine Beecher
Filed under Remedy | Tags: beecher, bicarbonate of soda, bowels, laxative, powder, powders, rochelle, rochelle salts, seidlitz, tartaric acid | Comment (0)For Bruises and Swellings
Use distilled witch-hazel, wetting a cloth and applying frequently. Both better and cheaper than arnica.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
For Burns
Wet cotton batting with coal oil and put on the burn, keeping there until it is well.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
A Mild Aperient (To Take In The Spring)
Put 1 oz. of senna into a jar, and pour 1 quart of boiling water over it; fill up the vessel, with prunes and figs; cover with paper, and set it in the oven, with household bread. Take every morning, one or two prunes, and a wine-glass of the liquor.– Or: dissolve 3 oz. of Spanish liquorice in one pint boiling water, add 1 oz. socotrine aloes in powder, and 1 pint brandy. Take 1 tea-spoonful in a wine-glassful of water, either in the morning, at night, or both.– Or: a large tea-spoonful of magnesia, a lump of sugar, a dessert-spoonful of lemon juice, in 1/2 pint of spring water.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett