1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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be excellent : — Grate the corn from 12 ears of corn boiled, beat up 5 eggs, stir tliem with the corn, sea- son with pepper and salt, and fry the mixture brown, browning the top with a hot shovel. If fried in small cakes, with a little flour and milk stirred in for a batter, it is very nice. No. 523. How to keep fresh Fish. In order to keep fresh fish, draw the fish and re- move the gills ; then insert a piece of charcoal in their mouths, and 2 or 3 pieces in their bellies. If they are to be conveyed any distance, wrap each fish separately in paper and place them in a box. Fish thus preserved will keep fresh several days.

No. 524. To varnish Articles of Iron and Steel.

Dissolve 10 parts clear grains of mastic, 5 parts camphor, 15 grains sandarac, and 5 parts elemi, in a sufiicient quantity of alcohol, and apply this var- nish without heat. The articles will not only be preserved from rust, but the varnish will retain its transparency, and the metallic brilliancy of the articles will not be impaired.

No. 525. A Turkish Care for the Gravel.

Take equal parts of small pebble-stones, pulve> rized very fine, nettle-seed, and honey; mix them