Toast a bit of light bread ; add a little bit of butter, salt, and pepper. Pour over the whole a few spoonfuls of boil- ing wate✪ Toast Waterr. Quickly prepared, and quite palatable. Miss Julia Porter. IMPERIAL DRINK. Pour one quart of boiling water upon a quarter of an ounce of cream of tartar; add a few lemon and orange chips and half an ounce of sugar candy✪ Imperial Drink. Pour off the clear fluid when cold, and use for common drink when feverish. WINE WHEY. Take one pint of boiling milk, and pour into it one large glassful of pale vine✪ Wine Whey when the milk is scalding hot, Boil up once, remove from the fire, and let it cool. Do not stir it after the wine is put in. When the curd forms, draw off the whey, and sweeten. LEMON NOGG. Beat one egg very light, sweeten, and add the juice of one lemon. Then fill a tumbler half full of ice-water✪ Lemon Nogg, add the egg, sugar, and lemon juice, and toss back and forth until quite light. The New Kentucky Home Cook Booh. 361 EGG FLIP. Beat an egg separately, then together ; sweeten with a tea- spoonful of sugar; then pour over it sherry wine, or any kind preferred✪ Egg Flip. This is excellent for the sick. Tastes like egg-nog. BARLEY WATER. Boil two ounces of pearl barley (previously well mashed) for twenty minutes in a pint and a half of water; strain it, and flavor with lemon and sugar to taste✪ Barley Water. DRINK FOR INVALIDS. Take one egg, separate it, beat the yelk and two tea-spoon- fuls of sugar together until very light. Over this pour a little wine✪ Drink for Invalids, stirring all the while, then add the white of the egg well beaten. Miss Alice Ficklin. Hot lemonade, with broken crackers, is quite nutritious for a sick person. Miss Julia Porter. LIQUID MEASURES. Sixty drops are equal to one tea-spoonful. Four table-spoonfuls are equal to one wine-glassful. Four table-spoonfuls are equal to half a gill. Twelve table-spoonfuls are equal to one tea-cupful. MISCELLANEOUS. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. To beat the whites of eggs quickly, put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs, the quicker they will froth. Salt cools and preserves them. Beeswax and salt will make rusty flat-irons as smooth as glass. Roasted coffee is one of the most powerful disinfectants, not only rendering animal and vegetable effluvia harmless but really destroying them. An attack of indigestion caused from eating nuts may be immediately relieved by the simple remedy, "salt." Medi- cal men recommend that salt should be used with nuts, espe- cially when eaten at night. Fish may be scaled much more easily if dipped in boil- ing water for an instant. The unpleasant odor left on the breath after eating on- ions is entirely removed by drinking a cupful of strong coffee ; and the coffee being prepared while the onions are being cooked counteracts the smell. Tough meat may be made as tender as any by the addi- tion of a little vinegar to the water when it is put on to boil. To prevent the disagreeable odor from arising while cook- ing cabbage, drop in a small lump of blacksmith's coal. The water should be changed when half cooked, and it will then acquire greater sweetness. Never put pickles into a jar that has had lard in it. If the brass top of a kerosene lamp has come off, it may • (362) The New Kentucky Home Cook Book 363 be repaired with a little plaster of Paris mixed with a little water, and it will be as strong as ever.

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Toast a bit of light bread ; add a little bit of butter, salt, and pepper. Pour over the whole a few spoonfuls of boiling water. Quickly prepared, and quite palatable. Miss Julia Porter. IMPERIAL DRINK. Pour one quart of boiling water upon a quarter of an ounce of cream of tartar; add a few lemon and orange chips and half an ounce of sugar candy. Pour off the clear fluid when cold, and use for common drink when feverish. WINE WHEY. Take one pint of boiling milk, and pour into it one large glassful of pale wine when the milk is scalding hot, Boil up once, remove from the fire, and let it cool. Do not stir it after the wine is put in. When the curd forms, draw off the whey, and sweeten. LEMON NOGG. Beat one egg very light, sweeten, and add the juice of one lemon. Then fill a tumbler half full of ice-water, add the egg, sugar, and lemon juice, and toss back and forth until quite light. The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. EGG FLIP. Beat an egg separately, then together ; sweeten with a teaspoonful of sugar; then pour over it sherry wine, or any kind preferred. This is excellent for the sick. Tastes like egg-nog. BARLEY WATER. Boil two ounces of pearl barley (previously well mashed) for twenty minutes in a pint and a half of water; strain it, and flavor with lemon and sugar to taste. DRINK FOR INVALIDS. Take one egg, separate it, beat the yelk and two tea-spoonfuls of sugar together until very light. Over this pour a little wine, stirring all the while, then add the white of the egg well beaten. Miss Alice Ficklin. Hot lemonade, with broken crackers, is quite nutritious for a sick person. Miss Julia Porter. LIQUID MEASURES. Sixty drops are equal to one tea-spoonful. Four table-spoonfuls are equal to one wine-glassful. Four table-spoonfuls are equal to half a gill. Twelve table-spoonfuls are equal to one tea-cupful. MISCELLANEOUS. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. To beat the whites of eggs quickly, put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs, the quicker they will froth. Salt cools and preserves them. Beeswax and salt will make rusty flat-irons as smooth as glass. Roasted coffee is one of the most powerful disinfectants, not only rendering animal and vegetable effluvia harmless but really destroying them. An attack of indigestion caused from eating nuts may be immediately relieved by the simple remedy, "salt." Medical men recommend that salt should be used with nuts, especially when eaten at night. Fish may be scaled much more easily if dipped in boiling water for an instant. The unpleasant odor left on the breath after eating onions is entirely removed by drinking a cupful of strong coffee ; and the coffee being prepared while the onions are being cooked counteracts the smell. Tough meat may be made as tender as any by the addition of a little vinegar to the water when it is put on to boil. To prevent the disagreeable odor from arising while cooking cabbage, drop in a small lump of blacksmith's coal. The water should be changed when half cooked, and it will then acquire greater sweetness. Never put pickles into a jar that has had lard in it. If the brass top of a kerosene lamp has come off, it may • (362) The New Kentucky Home Cook Book 363 be repaired with a little plaster of Paris mixed with a little water, and it will be as strong as ever.

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