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PLAIN MILK TOAST.
Cut a thin slice from a loaf of stale bread, toast it very quickly, sprinkle a
little salt over it, and pour upon it three tablespoonfuls of boiling milk or
cream. Crackers split and toasted in this manner, are often very grateful to an
invalid.
LINSEED TEA.
Put one tablespoonful of linseed into a stew-pan with half a pint of cold water;
place the stew-pan over a moderate fire, and, when the water is quite warm, pour
it off, and add to the linseed half a pint of fresh cold water; then let the
whole boil three or four minutes; season it with lemon and sugar.
POWDERS FOR CHILDREN.
A very excellent carminative powder for flatulent infants may be kept in the
house, and employed with advantage whenever the child is in pain or griped,
dropping five grains of oil of anise-seed and two of peppermint on half an ounce
of lump sugar, and rubbing it in a mortar, with a drachm of magnesia, into a
fine powder. A small quantity of this may be given in a little water at any
time, and always with benefit.
FOR CHILDREN TEETHING.
Tie a quarter of a pound of wheat flour in a thick cloth, and boil it in one
quart of water for three hours; then remove the cloth and expose the flour to
the air or heat until it is hard and dry; grate from it, when wanted, one
tablespoonful, which put into half a pint of new milk, and stir over the fire
until it comes to a boil, when add a pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of cold
water, and serve. This gruel is excellent for children afflicted with summer
complaint.
Or, brown a tablespoonful of flour in the oven or on top of the stove on a
baking-tin; feed a few pinches at a time to a child, and it will often check a
diarrh“a. The tincture of "kino"--of which from ten to thirty drops, mixed with
a little sugar and water in a spoon, and given every two or three hours, is very
efficacious and harmless--can be procured at almost any druggist's. Tablespoon
doses of pure cider vinegar, and a pinch of salt, has cured when all else
failed.
BLACKBERRY CORDIAL.
This recipe may be found under the head of "Coffee, Tea, Beverages." It will be
found an excellent medicine for children teething and summer diseases.
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