WAFERS. — Take flour, white of eggs, isinglass, and a little yeast ; beat them well together ; make the batter thin with gum-water✪ Wafers, spread it on iron plates, and dry in an oven, then cut them out. They may be coloured by adding brazil or vermilion for red, indigo for blue, or saffron or gamboge for yellow. WALL-PAPERS, To Remove Grease from. — Mix a little pipe- clay with sufficient water to reduce it to the consistence of cream, spread it over the spot and allow it to remain on for twenty-four hours, then remove it with a knife, and carefully brush and dust the paper-hangings. WALNUTS (PICKLED). — The best timeintheyear for pickling walnuts is the first week in July. If left beyond the middle of that month they are liable to become too hard and woody. First steep them in brine for a week, then boil them very gently in a kettle of brine ; strain, and set in an airy position for a day or two, until they turn black, and afterwards add vinegar, in each quart of which has been steeped one ounce each of shallots, ginger, black pepper, mustard-seed, and salt. WARTS AND CORNS, Cure for. — Burn the bark of the willow- tree to ashes and apply to the part. It will remove excrescences from any part of the human frame. The easiest way, however, of getting rid of warts is to pare off the 200 thickened skin which covers them, shaving it away till you come to the surface of the skin and till blood oozes from two or three parts, then rub the place thoroughly with lunar caustic. One application will generally be effectual, if not, cut off the black spot occasioned by the caustic and apply it again, or touch the spot with acetic acid. Another way : — Steep a very small piece of beef in vinegar for twenty- four hours ; fasten it over the wart with sticking plaster. Keep it on night and day for a week, when, upon removing the plaster, it will be found adhering to it. This application is said to remove the most desperate wart or corn, and leaves no scar. Se e also Corns, Simple Remedy for. WASHING FLUID, for Coarse Articles. — Boil for two hours in six quarts of water, half a pound of slacked lime and a pound of soda. Let it settle, then pour off the clear liquor for use. This fluid will be found very effectual in bringing the floors of rooms to a good colour. WASHING POWDERS. — The basis of all washing powders is the soda-ash of commerce, blended in variable proportions with Scotch soda. The best consist chiefly of the former article. Reduce the alkaline matter to a coarse powder, mix it with liquid size or with a decoction of linseed or Irish moss. Dry it, again crush it to a powder, and make it into packets as quickly as possible. An excellent washing powder can also be made by adding to common soda sufficient quicklime to make it partly caustic. WASP-GRUBS, To Preserve. — Anglers may preserve for a long time these tempting delicacies for trout and basking chub by baking the comb in a slow oven or before a fire and then packing it in dry straw. WASPS AND BEES, Stings from. — Mix together a little spirits of hartshorn with double its quantity of olive oil, and apply to the part affected. Another very simple remedy, which is asserted to be unfailing, is to rub with an onion the part of the flesh which is stung. The application of either oil of tartar or a solution of potash will give instant ease.

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WAFERS. — Take flour, white of eggs, isinglass, and a little yeast ; beat them well together ; make the batter thin with gum-water, spread it on iron plates, and dry in an oven, then cut them out. They may be coloured by adding brazil or vermilion for red, indigo for blue, or saffron or gamboge for yellow. WALL-PAPERS, To Remove Grease from. — Mix a little pipeclay with sufficient water to reduce it to the consistence of cream, spread it over the spot and allow it to remain on for twenty-four hours, then remove it with a knife, and carefully brush and dust the paper-hangings. WALNUTS (PICKLED). — The best time in the year for pickling walnuts is the first week in July. If left beyond the middle of that month they are liable to become too hard and woody. First steep them in brine for a week, then boil them very gently in a kettle of brine ; strain, and set in an airy position for a day or two, until they turn black, and afterwards add vinegar, in each quart of which has been steeped one ounce each of shallots, ginger, black pepper, mustard-seed, and salt. WARTS AND CORNS, Cure for. — Burn the bark of the willowtree to ashes and apply to the part. It will remove excrescences from any part of the human frame. The easiest way, however, of getting rid of warts is to pare off the thickened skin which covers them, shaving it away till you come to the surface of the skin and till blood oozes from two or three parts, then rub the place thoroughly with lunar caustic. One application will generally be effectual, if not, cut off the black spot occasioned by the caustic and apply it again, or touch the spot with acetic acid. Another way : — Steep a very small piece of beef in vinegar for twentyfour hours ; fasten it over the wart with sticking plaster. Keep it on night and day for a week, when, upon removing the plaster, it will be found adhering to it. This application is said to remove the most desperate wart or corn, and leaves no scar. See also Corns, Simple Remedy for. WASHING FLUID, for Coarse Articles. — Boil for two hours in six quarts of water, half a pound of slacked lime and a pound of soda. Let it settle, then pour off the clear liquor for use. This fluid will be found very effectual in bringing the floors of rooms to a good colour. WASHING POWDERS. — The basis of all washing powders is the soda-ash of commerce, blended in variable proportions with Scotch soda. The best consist chiefly of the former article. Reduce the alkaline matter to a coarse powder, mix it with liquid size or with a decoction of linseed or Irish moss. Dry it, again crush it to a powder, and make it into packets as quickly as possible. An excellent washing powder can also be made by adding to common soda sufficient quicklime to make it partly caustic. WASP-GRUBS, To Preserve. — Anglers may preserve for a long time these tempting delicacies for trout and basking chub by baking the comb in a slow oven or before a fire and then packing it in dry straw. WASPS AND BEES, Stings from. — Mix together a little spirits of hartshorn with double its quantity of olive oil, and apply to the part affected. Another very simple remedy, which is asserted to be unfailing, is to rub with an onion the part of the flesh which is stung. The application of either oil of tartar or a solution of potash will give instant ease.

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