To Make Paint for One Cent a Pound.—To one gallon of soft hot water add four pounds sulphate of zinc (crude). Let it dissolve perfectly, and a sediment will settle at the bottom. Turn the clear solution into another vessel. To one gallon of paint (lead and oil), mix one gallon of the compound. Stir into it the paint slowly for ten or fifteen minutes, and the compound and the paint will perfectly combine. If too thick, thin it with turpentine. This receipt has been sold to painters as high as $100 for the privilege to use the same in their business.
Almond Cream.—(There is nothing equal to this cream for softening and whitening the hands.) Mix honey, almond meal and olive oil into a paste to be used after washing with soap. Castile soap is best for use; it will cure a scratch, or cut, and prevents any spot.
Cream of Roses.—Take one teacupful of rose water, as much sub-carbonate of potash as will lie on a shilling, and half an ounce of oil of sweet almonds. Let all be well shaken together until it becomes thoroughly mixed, which will take some time. This is one of the best face washes made, and is entirely harmless.
Excellent Pomade.—Three ounces of olive oil, three-quarters of a drachm of the oil of almonds, two drachms of palm oil, half an ounce of white wax, a quarter of a pound of lard, and three-quarters of a drachm of the essence of bergamot. This pomade is excellent for strengthening the hair, promoting the growth of whiskers and moustaches, and preventing baldness.
Superior Cologne Water.—Alcohol, one gallon; add oil of cloves, lemon, nutmeg and bergamot, each one drachm; oil neroli, three and a half drachms; seven drops of oils of rosemary, lavender and cassia; half a pint of spirits of nitre; half a pint of elder-flower water. Let it stand a day or two, then take a colander and at the bottom lay a piece of white cloth, and fill it up, one-fourth of white sand, and filter through it.
Family Salve.—Take the root of the yellow dock and dandelion, equal parts; add good proportion of celandine and plantain. Extract the juices by steeping or pressing. Strain carefully, and simmer the liquid with sweet cream or fresh butter and mutton tallow, or sweet oil and mutton tallow. Simmer together until no appearance of the liquid remains. Before it is quite cold, put it into boxes. This is one of the most soothing and healing preparations for burns, scalds, cuts, and sores of every description.
Japanese Cement.—Immediately mix the best powdered rice with a little cold water, then gradually add boiling water until a proper consistency is acquired, being particularly careful to keep it well stirred all the time; lastly, it must be boiled for a minute in a clean saucepan or earthern pipkin. This glue is beautifully white and almost transparent, for which reason it is well adapted for fancy paper work, which requires a strong and colorless cement.
Transcriber’s Note:
Use of - to represent division in some expressions is standardized to /.