Slippery-Elm Bark Tea
Break the bark into bits, pour boiling water over it, cover, and let it infuse until cold. Sweeten, ice, and take for summer disorders, or add lemon juice and drink for a bad cold.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
Cure for a Cold
Boil two ounces flaxseed in one quart of water, strain and add two ounces of rock candy, one-half pint of honey, juice of three lemons ; mix and let all boil well, let cool and bottle. Dose, one cupful on going to bed one-half cupful before meals, the hotter you drink it the better.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
Cough Remedy
Pour half a pint of water on one quarter of a pound of gum arabic; when dissolved add one-quarter of a pound of sugar and half a gill of lemon juice; let it simmer for five or ten minutes then bottle and cork. When taken water may be added. This is a most soothing syrup for a throat irritated by a hacking cough.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
To Remove Sunburn
Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a small teacupful of new milk. Allow it to curdle. Apply it to the face and throat with a piece of cotton wool, after having been out in the sun, or the last thing at night. Allow it to remain on the skin for a short time then wash it off with tepid soft water. This will remove all heat and tan from the skin.
Source: The Dudley Book of Cookery and Household Recipes, Georgiana Dudley
Cough Mixture (The Late Sir William Gull’s)
4 ozs. honey
4 ozs. cod liver oil
The juice of 2 or 3 lemons, according to size
To mix the above put altogether into a jar and either stand it on the stove or in a saucepan of boiling water until it is well dissolved. Stir the ingredients occasionally.
A dessertspoonful to be taken three times a day, or double the quantity if the patient likes. Should the stomach reject the cod liver oil, sweet olive oil may be substituted, but the other is the best.
Source: The Northampton Cookery Book, M.A. Jeffery
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Juice of 1 lemon, 1 cup water, 1 t. soda. Mix and drink every night for three or four weeks, or until relieved.
Source: Book of Recipes, Daughters of the American Revolution, Genesee Chapter
Slippery-Elm Tea
Pour one cup of boiling water upon one teaspoonful of slippery-elm powder or a piece of the bark. When cool, strain, and flavor with lemon-juice and sugar. This is soothing in any inflammation of the mucous membrane.
Source: The Universal Cookery Book, Gertrude Strohm
Cologne Water
No. 1:
1 drachm oil lavender.
1 drachm oil bergamot.
2 drachm oil lemon.
2 drachm oil rosemary.
50 drops tincture of musk.
8 drops oil of cinnamon.
8 drops oil of cloves.
1 pint of alcohol.
No. 2:
60 drops oil of lavender.
60 drops oil of bergamot.
60 drops oil of lemon.
60 drops orange-flower water.
1 pint of alcohol.
Cork and shake well.
Source: Common Sense in the Household, Marion Harland
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The juice of two lemons in half a tumbler of luke warm water.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book
Flax-Seed Lemonade
4 tablespoonfuls flax-seed (whole.)
1 quart boiling water poured upon the flax-seed.
Juice of two lemons, leaving out the peel.
Sweeten to taste.
Steep three hours in a covered pitcher. If too thick, put in cold water with the lemon-juice and sugar. Ice for drinking.
It is admirable for colds.
Source: Common Sense in the Household, Marion Harland
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