Virginia Cookery-book

If you wish a blister to heal quickly, be careful not to remove the skin. On infants this should be observed. The first dressing should be lily or cabbage leaves coddled in boiling water, then a salve made thus : one part wax, one of lard, one of turpentine (from the pine-tree) ; melt and strain. Rosin is sometimes used instead of turpentine. This makes basilicon. If the part be in a situation apt to be rubbed, cover with cotton bats, as in a bum, especially in case of an infant. Basilicon Salve. One part lard, one of beeswax, one of turpentine (from the tree, or rosin will do) ; melt together and strain. It is good to keep this always ready. Cuts. A cut should be drawn together and strapped across with sticking-plaster. This should not be removed for three or four days, and when withdrawn it should be by both ends (at once) so as to pull it out together instead of opening it. When no sticking-plaster is at hand, a pretty good substitute can be made by beating comfrey and sugar together, and spreading the juice (not the substance) on a bit of strong linen, and using it as above directed. Wounds. Ragged wounds (in the hand or foot especially) should be freely and frequently bathed in hot lye, and dressed ^ either with lye poultice, thickened milk poultice (with a little oil to keep it from getting hard), or with mush and fat. Sprains. Parsnip-tops beat to a pulp and wet with vinegar are a good application; or bran, clay, or brown paper made wet with vinegar; but I think that for sprains or Bruises You had better wrap the part with a soft cloth in many folds, and keep it constantly wet with water as warm as the patient can bear it. This treatment should be kept up for an hour or two at a time. For a Rising Breast. Make a plaster of two table-spoonfuls of flour, two of honey, and two of linseed oil; stew together, and spread smooth on a cloth; scrape two table-spoonfuls of gum camphor as fine as possible, and sprinkle over it; apply this to the breast if it is desirable to dry up the milk. Nothing can be better. If you do not wish to dry up the milk, a hole should be cut for the nipple, and the child frequently nursed to keep up the flow of milk, or it will dry up. To soften a breast in which cold has been taken, flannel wrung out of hot salt water (very strong and as hot as can be borne) is the best thing I ever saw tried. Boils. These painful and troublesome things may sometimes be prevented by wetting a stick of caustic at one end and making a circle around the inflamed part. If it will rise, apply a warm flaxseed or a mush and fat poultice, and as soon as it is soft open with a lancet, and dress with Basilicon. If the boil is a hard tumor, with a hard speck in the middle, which when opened shows a greenish-looking core, it is a carbuncle, and should have a blister put entirely over it. All boils which are slow to rise are best treated by being blistered, which is less painful than would be supposed. 14* AcfiD, Blackberry 280 Acid, Strawberry 278 Apple Charlotte 178 Apple Pies vrithout Apples 177 Apple -water 816 Apples , 313 Apples with Jelly 226 A Pretty Supper- dish 224 Arrow-root 810 Artichoke 120 AshCake 20 Asparagus 121 Asparagus Soup 78 Bacon, to Cure 268 Bass, to Bake 71 Bass, to Dress 69 Batter Bread 21 Batter Bread, Mrs! Cabell's 38 Batter Cakes, Economical 24 Batter Cakes of Indian Meal ... 88 Batter Cakes made with Mush . 23 Bavarian Cream 224 Beans, French, or Snap 122 Beans, Lima 122 Beef Bouilli 103 Beef Essence 806 Beef, Pressed 277 Beef Soup 74 Beef Stew 96 BeefTea,No.l 806 BeefTea,No.2 307 Beef, to Com, Nos. 1 and 2 278 Beef Tongue, Fresh 108 PAoa Beefsteak 96 Beefsteak, Italian 102 Beets 122 Biscuit, Beaten, No. 1 7 Biscuit, Beaten, No. 2 8