Helpful Hints

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HELPFUL HINTS

Tomato Catsup. Nice catsup may be made with four quarts pof tomatoes , one pint pf vinegar, three table spoonfuls salt, two of mustard, two of black pepper, three red peppers broken, and half pounce allspice or mace.

To Relieve Asthma. Take the leaves of the stramonium (or Jamestown weed), dried in the shade, saturted with a pretty strong solution of salt petre, and smoke is so as to inhale the fumes. It may strangle at first if taken too freely, but it will loosen the phlegm in the lungs. The leaves should be gathered before frost.

Substitute Coffee. Take sound ripe acorns, wash them while in the shell, dry them , and parch until they open, take the shell off, roast with a little bacon fat, and you will have a splendid cup of coffee.

Chinese Method of Rendering Cloth Waterproof. To one ounce of white wax, melted, add one quart of spirits of turpentine, in which, when thoroughly mixed and cold, dip the cloth and hang up to dry.

______from: "Confederate Receipt Book - ACompilation of Over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted tothe Times." West & Johnson, Richmond, 1863. G. W. Gary, Printer, 21 Pearl Street. (The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia).