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of mace, a bay-leaf, a strip of lemon | garlic. As all these vegetables do not rind, and a wineglassful of sherry; cover come in season together, the best the jar close, and let it stand on the hob or on a stove, so as to be thoroughly heated, and on the point of boiling; so let it remain a day or two, till the liquor is absorbed by the mushrooms and spices; then cover them with hot vinegar, close them again, and stand till it just comes to a boil; then take them away from the fire. When they are quite cold, divide the mushrooms and spice into widemouthed bottles, fill them up with the vinegar, and tie them over. In a week's time, if the vinegar has shrunk so as not entirely to cover the mushrooms, add cold vinegar. At the top of each bottle put a teaspoonful of salad or almond oil; cork close, and dip in bottle

resin.

method is to prepare a large jar of pickle at such time of the year as most of the things may be obtained, and add the others as they come in season. Thus the pickle will be nearly a year in making, and ought to stand another year before using, when, if properly managed, it will be excellent, but will keep and continue to improve for years. For preparing the several vegetables, the same directions may be observed as for pickling them separately, only take this general rule-that, if possible, boiling is to be avoided, and soaking in brine to be preferred; be very particular that every ingredient is perfectly dry before putting into the jar, and that the jar is very closely tied down every time that it is opened for the addition of fresh vegetables. Neither mushrooms, walnuts, nor red cabbage are to be admitted. For the pickle:-To a gallon of the best white wine vinegar add salt three ounces, flour of mustard half a pound, turmeric two ounces, white ginger sliced three ounces, cloves one ounce, mace, black pepper, long pepper, white pepper, half an ounce each, cayenne two drachms, shalots peeled four ounces, garlic peeled two ounces; steep the spice in vinegar on the hob or trivet for two or three days. The mustard and turmeric must be rubbed smooth with a little cold vinegar, and stirred into the rest when as near boiling as possible. Such vegetables as are ready may be put in; when cayenne, 1564. INDIAN PICKLE. The vege- nasturtiums, or any other vegetables tables to be employed for this favourite mentioned in the first method of pickpickle are small hard knots of white ling come in season, put them in the cabbage, sliced; cauliflowers or broccli pickle as they are; any in the second in flakes; long carrots, not larger than a method, a small quantity of hot vinegar finger, or large carrots sliced (the former without spice; when cold, pour it off, and are far preferable); gherkins, French put the vegetables into the general jar. beans, small button onions, white If the vegetables are greened in vinegar, turnip radishes half grown, radish- as French beans and gherkins, this will pods, shalots, young hard apples; green not be so necessary, but will be an impeaches, before the stones begin to provement to all. Onions had better not form; vegetable marrow, not larger be wet at all; but if it be desired not to than a hen's egg; small green melons, have the full flavour, both onions, shalots, celery, shoots of green elder, horse- and garlic may be sprinkled with salt radish, nasturtiums, capsicums, and in a cullender, to draw off all the strong

1563. SAMPHIRE.-On the sea coast this is merely preserved in water, or equal parts of sea-water and vinegar; but as it is sometimes sent fresh as a present to inland parts, the best way of managing it under such circumstances is to steep it two days in brine, then drain and put it in a stone jar covered with vinegar, and having a lid, over which put thick paste of flour and water, and set it in a very cool oven all night, or in a warmer oven till it nearly but not quite boils. Then let it stand on a warm hob for half an hour, and allow it to become quite cold before the paste is removed; then add cold vinegar, if any more is required, and secure as other pickles.

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juice; let them lie two or three hours. The elder, apples, peaches, and so forth, to be greened as gherkins. The roots, radishes, carrots, celery, are only soaked in brine and dried. Half a pint of salad oil, or of mustard oil, is sometimes added. It should be rubbed with the flour of mustard and turmeric. It is not essential to Indian pickle to have every variety of vegetable here mentioned; but all these are admissible, and the greater variety the more it is approved.

1565. To PICKLE GHERKINS. Put about two hundred and fifty in a pickle of two pounds, and let them remain in it three hours. Put them in a sieve to drain, wipe them, and place them in a jar. For a pickle, best vinegar, one gallon; common salt, six ounces; allspice, one ounce; mustard seed, one ounce; cloves, half an ounce; mace, half an ounce; one nutmeg sliced; a stick of horseradish sliced; boil fifteen minutes; skim it well. When cold, pour it over them, and let stand twentyfour hours, covered up; put them into a pan over the fire, and let them simmer only until they attain a green colour. Tie the jars down closely with bladder and leather.

for pickling, never allow the vinegar to cool in them, as it then is poisonous. Add a teaspoonful of alum and a teacupful of salt to each three gallons of vinegar, and tie up a bag, with pepper, ginger root, spices of all the different sorts in it, and you have vinegar prepared for any kind of pickling. Keep pickles only in wood or stone ware. Anything that has held grease will spoil pickles. Stir pickles occasionally, and if there are soft ones take them out, and scald the vinegar, and pour it hot over the pickles. Keep enough vinegar to cover them well. If it is weak, take fresh vinegar and pour on hot Do not boil vinegar or spice above five minutes.

1568. To Make Anchovies.Procure a quantity of sprats, as fresh as possible; do not wash or wipe them, but just take them as caught, and for every peck of the fish, take two pounds of common salt, a quarter of a pound of bay salt, four pounds of saltpetre, two ounces of sal-prunella, and two pennyworth of cochineal. Pound all these ingredients in a mortar, mixing them well together. Then take stone jars or small kegs, according to your quantity of sprats, and place a layer of the fish 1566. Pickled Eggs. If the and a layer of the mixed ingredients following pickle were generally known alternately, until the pot is full; then it would be more generally used. We press hard down, and cover close for constantly keep it in our family, and find six months, they will then be fit for use. it an excellent pickle to be eaten with We can vouch for the excellence and cold meat, &c. The eggs should be cheapness of the anchovies made in boiled hard (say ten minutes), and then this manner. In fact, most of the divested of their shells; when quite cold fine Gorgona anchovies sold in the put them in jars, and pour over them oil and pickle shops are made in vinegar (sufficient to quite cover them), this or a similar manner, from British in which has been previously boiled sprats. the usual spices for pickling; tie the jars down tight with bladder, and keep them till they begin to change

colour.

1567. Pickling.-Do not keep pickles in common earthenware, as the glazing contains lead, and combines with the vinegar. Vinegar for pickling should be sharp, though not the sharpest kind, as it injures the pickles. If you use copper, bell-metal, or brass vessels,

1569. To Make British Anchovies.-To a peck of sprats, put two pounds of salt, three ounces of bay salt, one pound of saltpetre, two ounces of prunella, and a few grains of cochineal; pound them all in a mortar, then put into a stone pan or anchovy barrel, first a layer of sprats, and then one of the compound, and so on alternately to the top. Press them down hard; cover them close for six months, and they will be

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1s. 6d. per pound; white wax, 2s. 2d. per pound; spermaceti, 2s. per pound; rose and orange-flower waters, 6d. to 1s. per pint.

1583. Camphorated

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frice. Prepared chalk, one pound; camphor, one or two drachms. The camphor must be finely powdered by moistening it with a little spirit of wine, and then intimately mixing it with the chalk. Prepared chalk will cost about 6d., the camphor less than 1d. The present price of camphor is under 3s. per pound.

1584. Myrrh Dentifrice.-Powdered cuttlefish, one pound; powdered myrrh, two ounces. Cuttlefish is 1s. 8d. per pound, powdered myrrh, 3s. 6d. per pound.

1585. American Tooth Powder.-Coral, cuttlefish bone, dragon's blood, of each eight drachms; burnt alum and red sanders, of each four drachms; orris root, eight drachms; cloves and cinnamon, of each half a drachm; vanilla, eleven grains; rosewood, half a drachm; rose pink, eight drachms. All to be finely powdered and mixed.

1580. To Soften the Skin and Improve the Complexion. · If flowers of sulphur be mixed in a little milk, and after standing an hour or two, the milk (without disturbing the sulphur) be rubbed into the skin, it will keep it soft, and make the complexion clear. It is to be used before washing. A lady of our acquaintance, being exceedingly anxious about her complexion, adopted the above suggestion. In about a fortnight she wrote to us to say that the mixture became so disagreeable after it had been made a few days, that she could not use it. We should have wondered if she could-the milk became putrid! A little of the mixture should have been prepared overnight with evening milk, and used the next morning, but not afterwards. About a wine-glassful made for each occasion would suffice. 1581. Eyelashes. The mode 1586. Quinine Tooth Powder. adopted by the beauties of the East to-Rose pink, two drachms; precipitated increase the length and strength of their chalk, twelve drachms; carbonate of eyelashes, is simply to clip the split ends magnesia, one drachm; quinine (sulwith a pair of scissors about once a phate), six grains. All to be well mixed month. Mothers perform the operation together. on their children, both male and female, when they are mere infants, watching the opportunity whilst they sleep. The practice never fails to produce the desired effect. We recommend it to the attention of our fair readers, as a safe and innocent means of enhancing the charms which so many of them, no doubt, already possess.

1582. The Teeth.-Dissolve two ounces of borax in three pints of water; before quite cold, add thereto one teaspoonful of tincture of myrrh, and one tablespoonful of spirits of camphor: bottle the mixture for use. One wineglassful of the solution, added to half a pint of tepid water, is sufficient for each application. This solution, applied daily, preserves and beautifies the teeth, extirpates tartarous adhesion, produces a pearl-like whiteness, arrests decay, and induces a healthy action in the gums.

1587. Hair Dye. - A friend of ours, to whom we applied upon the subject, favoured us with the following information:-"I have operated upon my own cranium for at least a dozen years, and though I have heard it affirmed that dyeing the hair will produce insanity, I am happy to think I am, as yet, perfectly sane, and under no fear of being otherwise; at all events, I am wiser than I once was, when I paid five shillings for what I can now make myself for less than twopence! - but to the question ;-I procure lime, which I speedily reduce to powder by throwing a little water upon it, then mix this with litharge (three quarters lime, and a quarter litharge), which I sift through a fine hair sieve, and then I have what is sold at a high price under the name of Unique Powder,' and the most effectual hair dye that has yet been

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--Solution No. ii. Nitrate of silver, one drachm; distilled or rain water, two ounces. Dissolved and labelled No. ii.

discovered. But the application of it is not very agreeable, though simple enough:-Put a quantity of it in a saucer, pour boiling water upon it, and 1589. Directions how to apply.-The mix it up with a knife like thick solution No. i. is first applied to the hair mustard: divide the hair into thin with a tooth brush, and the application layers with a comb, and plaster the continued for fifteen or twenty minutes. mixture thickly into the layers to the The solution No. ii. is then brushed roots, and all over the hair. When it over, a comb being used to separate the is completely covered with it, lay over hairs, and allow the liquid to come in it a covering of damp blue or brown contact with every part. Care must be paper, then bind over it, closely, a taken that the liquid does not touch handkerchief, then put on a night- the skin, as the solution No. ii. procap, over all, and go to bed; in the duces a permanent dark stain on all morning brush out the powder, wash substances with which it comes in thoroughly with soap and warm water, contact. If the shade is not suffithen dry, curl, oil, &c. I warrant ciently deep, the operation may be rethat hair thus managed will be a per- peated. The hair should be cleansed manent and beautiful black, which I from grease before using the dye. Cost: dare say most people would prefer to hydrosulphuret of ammonia, 2s. 6d. per either grey or red." Now, notwithstand-pound; solution of potash, 8d. per ing the patient endurance and satis- pound; nitrate of silver, 4s. 6d. per factory experience of our friend, we ounce; bottles, 10d. to 1s. 5d. per very much doubt whether one person dozen. in a hundred would be content to envelope their heads in batter of this description, and then retire to rest. To rest! did we say? We envy not the slumbers enjoyed under these circumstances. We fancy we can do something still better for those who are ashamed of their grey hairs. The hair dyes formerly used produced very objectionable tints. Latterly several perfumers have been selling dyes, consisting of two liquids to be used in succession, at exceedingly high prices, such as 7s., 14s., and 21s. a case. The composition has been kept a close secret in the hands of a few. The procuring of it for publication in this work has been attended with considerable difficulty, but our readers may take it as an earnest that no pains or expense will be spared to afford really useful information.

1588. HAIR DYE, USUALLY STYLED COLOMBIAN, ARGENTINE, &c., &c.-Solution No. i., Hydrosulphuret of ammonia, one ounce; solution of potash, three drachms; distilled or rain water, one ounce (all by measure). Mix, and put into small bottles, labelling it No. i.

1590. TO TEST HAIR DYE.-To try the effect of hair dye upon hair of any colour, cut off a lock and apply the dye thoroughly as directed above. This will be a guarantee of success, or will at least guard against failure.

1591. THE PROPER APPLICATION OF HAIR DYES.-The efficacy of hair dyes depends as much upon their proper application as upon their chemical composition. If not evenly and patiently applied, they give rise to a mottled and dirty condition of the hair. A lady, for instance, attempted to use the lime and litharge dye, and was horrified on the following morning to find her hair spotted red and black, almost like the skin of a leopard. She wrote to us in great excitement and implored our aid. But what could we do? The mixture had not been properly applied. own hair is becoming grey, and we don't mind telling the reader what we intend to do: we have resolved to let it remain so, and bear "our grey hairs to the grave," deeming them to be no dishonour.

Our

1592. Compounds to Promote the Growth of Hair.—When the