Chlorine Pastiles for Disinfecting the Breath
1. Dry chloride of lime, two drachms; sugar, eight ounces; starch, one ounce, gum tragacanth, one drachm; carmine, two grains. Form into small lozenges.
2. Sugar flavored with vanilla, 1 ounce; powdered tragacanth, 20 grains; liquid chloride of soda sufficient to mix; add two drops of any essential oil. Form a paste and divide into lozenges of 15 grains each.
Source: Our Knowledge Box, ed. G. Blackie
Filed under Remedy | Tags: blackie, breath, carmine, chloride of lime, chloride of soda, chlorine, essential oil, gum-tragacanth, lozenges, pastiles, pastilles, sugar, vanilla | Comment (0)To Banish Rats
Chloride of lime is infallible; it should be put down the rat holes and spread about wherever they are likely to appear.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames
To Restore Sweetness to Tainted Butter
Cut or break the butter into very small pieces ; or, what is better, force it through a course wire sieve, so as to make it small as possible. Then put it into a churn with a sufficient quantity of new milk to swim it, and churn it well ; then take it out and work it well to free it from the milk, adding a little salt if necessary, and it will hardly be distinguished from entirely new butter.
Another way. To every pound of rancid butter, add a pint of water, into which has been put from twelve to fifteen drops of chloride of lime. Mix till all the particles are in contact with the water ; after letting it stand an hour or two, take it out and wash it in fresh water.
Source: Valuable Receipts, J.M. Prescott
Filed under Remedy | Tags: butter, chloride, chloride of lime, churn, lime, milk, prescott, rancid, salt, sieve, tainted | Comment (0)To Drive away Rats
Chloride of lime is au infallible preventive, as rats flee from its odor as from a pestilence. It should be thrown down their holes, and spread about wherever they are likely to come. It should be renewed once a fortnight.
Source: The Unrivalled Cook-Book and Housekeeper’s Guide, Mrs Washington
To Remove Stains from the Hands
Rub with chloride of lime, slightly moistening with water.
Source: The Kansas Home Cook-Book