Wine Jelly

Put into a porcelain saucepan half a paper of English gelatine and a large half cup of white sugar. Pour over half a pint of cold water, and let it soak for fifteen minutes. Then add half a pint of boiling water, and stir till the gelatine and sugar are dissolved. Put it on the stove, and when it boils up remove at once from the fire. Add half a pint of best Madeira, Sherry, or California wine. Put in tumblers or small moulds wet with cold water.

Mutton Broth

Take the shank or lower part of the leg; have the bone broken in two or three places, wash, and put it into a saucepan with a large quart of water and a teaspoonful of salt. Skim it well. To make the scum all rise, add half* a cup of cold water after having skimmed it twice. Boil it till the meat is ready to fall from the bones; put it aside till the next day in order to take off every particle of fat; or, if it is wanted immediately, skim off the fat carefully; then add a spoonful of whole rice, and, if allowed, a piece each of onion and turnip, and boil another hour.

Cinnamon Tea

Break a stick of good cinnamon into pieces; pour enough boiling water upon it to make a cupful of tea. Boil it up only a minute or two. Do not steep it. For bowel-complaint take a teaspoonful many times a day. It is a safe and excellent remedy.

Flaxseed Tea

Put to two tablespoonfuls of whole flaxseed a pint of boiling water, and boil it fifteen minutes. Cut up a lemon, and put into a pitcher with two tablespoonfuls of white sugar. Strain the flaxseed tea, boiling hot, through a small wire strainer into the pitcher, and stir it. Good for a cough and sore throat. More sugar if preferred. Take a spoonful often.

Black Currant Jelly (For A Sore Throat)

When the currants are picked over and washed, put them in the preserving pan or kettle with a very little water. When they begin to simmer, stir and crush them. When all are done soft, squeeze them in a coarse linen bag, and, for a pint of juice, allow twelve ounces of white sugar. Boil the juice gently a few minutes, and set it off in order to remove the scum. This done, return it to the fire, and stir in the heated sugar. Boil it slowly ten or twelve minutes. Being used only as a remedy for the sore throat, it should not be put into a jar, but in small glasses, or jelly-cups.

Antidotes To Poison

In cases where poison has been taken into the stomach, give immediately the whites of several eggs, - to a child, two or three; to an adult, six or seven. Or stir a large teaspoonful of mustard into a tumbler of warm water, to be drank all at once.

Blackberry Syrup

Procure perfectly ripe high blackberries. The low blackberries have not so much of the medicinal quality as the high berries. Put them in a porcelain-lined kettle over a moderate fire. Let them remain till they break in pieces; then mash, and strain through a flannel bag. To each pint of juice put one pound of white sugar, half an ounce of powdered cinnamon, quarter of an ounce of mace, and two teaspoonfuls of whole cloves. Boil all together for fifteen minutes, stirring occasionally; then strain the syrup again, and to each pint put a wine-glass of best French brandy. Put into bottles, cork, and seal them tight, and keep in a cool place. This syrup, mixed with cold water in the proportion of a wineglass to two-thirds of a tumbler of water, is an excellent remedy for bowel-complaint.