1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 85. A Lip-Salve.

Take 2 ounces oil of lemon. 1 ounce white wax. 1 ounce spermaceti.

Melt these ingredients, and while warn add 2 ounces rose-water, and J ounce orange-flower water. These make Hudson's cold cream, — a very excellent article. The lips are liable to excoriation and chaps, which often extend to considerable depth. These chaps are generally occasioned by mere cold. The above salve will be found efficacious in correcting these evils.

No. 86.

To make Cottage Beer,

Take 1 peck good sweet wheat bran, and put it into 10 gallons of water, with 3 handfuls of good hops; boil the whole together in an iron, brass, or copper kettle, until the bran and hops sink to the bottom. Then strain it through a hair sieve, or a thin sheet, into a cooler, and when it is about luke- warm add 2 quarts of molasses. As soon as the molasses is melted, pour the whole into a 9 or 10 gallon cask, with 2 tablespoonfuls of yeast. When the fermentation has subsided, bung up the cask, and in 4 days it will be fit for use.