Sicilian Sorbetto

Peel and mash one quart of mellow peaches. Add to them one pint of strained orange juice. Boil together one pound of sugar and one quart of water for five minutes. When cold add this to the fruit mixture. Turn into a freezer, pack and turn slowly until the dasher is hard to move. Make a meringue with the white of one egg and one tablespoonful of sugar. Stir into the sorbetto, repack and stand aside for at least two hours.

Indelible Ink

A stick of nitrate of silver dissolved in soft water. Keep the solution in a vial wrapped with dark paper and in a dark place to exclude light.

How To Use This Indelible Ink

Wash the linen to be marked with a solution of carbonate of soda, and let it dry. Then write with the solution of nitrate of silver, and place the linen in the sunlight.

How To Remove Indelible Ink Stains

Dust the spot of indelible ink with cyanide of potash, and moisten the linen with water. In five or ten minutes wash the linen with soft water, and the ink stain will disappear.

Recipe For Cologne

One ounce oil of bergamot, one drachm oil of nutmegs, twenty drops of oil of cloves, half ounce oil of verbena, one ounce tincture musk, one gallon of alcohol. Mix and shake well.

Remedy For Poison

A dessertspoonful of made mustard, and mixed in a tumbler of warm water, if drunk immediately, is a simple but efficient remedy for poison. It acts as an emetic, and being always easily procured can be used in any case where one is required. This simple antidote may be the means of saving many a fellow creature from an untimely end.

Opodeldoc

Fill a vial half full of whiskey, put in broken gum camphor and let it dissolve, then add castile soap scraped fine (other good mild soap will answer). Shake the vial well, and when the soap is dissolved and the mixture becomes thick it is ready for use. The proportions of camphor and soap are matters of guess or judgment.

Colic Drops

One teaspoonful of magnesia and one of paregoric, half a teaspoonful of rhubarb, one teaspoonful of mintwater, and four tablespoonsful of cold water sweetened with loaf sugar. Dose for a child two weeks old one teaspoonful. Repeat if necessary in fifteen or twenty minutes.

Staining Floors

One gallon linseed oil, one pound Spanish brown, two pounds sienna powder, one ounce litharge, half an ounce lampblack. Boil the mixture, and add one pint of turpentine. Apply with a brush like paint.

Recipe For Restoring Color

Take one pint soft soap, two tablespoonsful of spirits of turpentine, one tablespoonful of hartshorn. Put these into five gallons of rain water, and wash as ordinarily. This is particularly nice for worsted goods.

Mucilage For Envelopes

Quarter pound of gum-arabic, one pint boiling water, and a piece of borax as large as a walnut. Put it into a large mouthed bottle when thoroughly mixed. Shake it occasionally for three or four days. After it is corked, if the weather is hot, a tablespoonful of alcohol will prevent mould.