The New Family Receipt Book, Containing One Thousand Truly Valuable Receipts ... [By Maria Eliza Rundell.] A New Edition, Considerably Improved

Maria Eliza RUNDELL

John Murray, 1824 - 517 pages

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Another compost	7

Steep for wheat barley or other grain	11

Easy method of destroying mites or weevils in granaries	17

To destroy beetles	23

For destroying caterpillars on gooseberry bushes	24

To destroy snails	30

Usefulness of mowing weeds	38

Cure of the rot in sheep	44

Green gooseberry wine to imitate champagne	265

Cowslip wine	271

Persicot	277

Paris method of making white ratafia	283

Gooseberry brandy	290

1	296

Boils	302

Costiveness	308

How to cut box edgings	50

To raise capsicums and make Cayenne pepper	56

To cultivate the common garden rhubarb	62

To prevent hares and rabbits from barking young planta	68

To preserve wood in damp situations	75

Economical method of employing tiles for the roofs of houses	81

A preparation to preserve wood from catching fire and	83

DOMESTIC ECONOMY	89

To discover if bread is adulterated with alum	95

Ferment for bread used by the inhabitants of Long Island	97

An improved method of making the coffee beverage	103

Gooseberry vinegar	109

Singular and simple manner of preserving apples from	115

To make Jamaica vegetable soap	121

To preserve eggs sound for the space of two years	125

Quicksilver	130

Important uses of the leaves of the vine	131

Red ratafia as made at Paris	135

Useful properties of red spurge	137

Expeditious method of taking out stains from scarlet	138

To make one gallon of black writing	145

An artificial water for writing letters of secrecy	150

To gild letters on vellum or paper	156

Composition that will effectually prevent iron steel c from	162

To soften ivory and bones	163

To make water more efficacious in extinguishing fires	169

To increase the durability of tiles	177

Easy method of making a saponaceous liquid which may	183

Art of dyeing or staining leather gloves to resemble	189

Useful property of common glue	195

Turkey cement for joining metals glass	201

To prepare a cement for joining broken glass China earthen	202

General observations on making varnishes of all kinds	208

Common varnish	214

To make white varnish	218

To make a lacker for brass	224

To make yeast in the Turkish manner	230

Eau de luce	234

Damson wine	246

Grape wine	252

Easy method of making excellent red or black cherry wine	258

Raspberry wine	264

Deafness	314

Freckles and sunburn	320

Hiccough	326

Mumps	333

Pimples and tetters	340

Scarlet fever	347

Clothing	353

Sickness and vomiting	359

Dentition	365

Worms	369

Alum whey	375

A stimulating embrocation	380

Cold cream	386

The everlasting pea a valuable crop for cattle	392

To prevent cows from contracting bad habits while milking	394

To make bottles airtight	400

Mixture for cleaning stonestairs hall pavements c	403

To take mildew out of linen	409

Substitute for human milk where from any circumstance	413

Another	419

A black varnish for gentlemens old straw or chip hats	421

To stop the rapidity of flames when the female dress happens	427

To repair roads near to coal mines	433

888	437

To take impressions on paper from designs made on stone	439

To revive a dull fire	442

Directions for painting rooms rails	448

Wash for the skin	454

Genuine Windsor soap	460

Rules for flyfishing	463

Paste or food for singing birds superior to the German paste	469

Comfort for those nearly blind	476

Easy safe and pleasant method of removing tartar from the Page	480

Method for the speedy recovery of the use of the foot or hand	486

Singularly useful properties of garlic	493

22	497

94	503

150	506

Genuine French noyeau as made at Paris	507

450	508

36	511

223	515

Common terms and phrases

acid �ther afterwards alum applied boiling water bottle bowels brandy bruised brush camphor cask clean cloth cold colour common composition copal costive covered dissolved Distilled Dose drachms dried drying oil eggs fermentation fire flavour flowers four ounces fresh fruit gallons gently glass grains half a pint half an ounce heat honey inches infusion insects isinglass juice keep lamp-black leaves lemon let it stand lime linen liniment linseed oil liquor litharge loaf sugar melted Method milk mixture mortar nutmeg paper piece plants pound powder preserve prevent proper quantity quart rectified spirit roots salt sandarac seeds Seville orange soap soft spirits of wine spoon stir stone strain sufficient sweet sweet oil syrup Take taken thick three ounces tincture trees turpentine varnish vessel vinegar vitriol warm washed whole wood yeast

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Title	The New Family Receipt Book, Containing One Thousand Truly Valuable Receipts ... [By Maria Eliza Rundell.] A New Edition, Considerably Improved
Author	Maria Eliza RUNDELL
Publisher	John Murray, 1824
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	14 Jan 2015
Length	517 pages

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