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Cheap peas soup Two red herrings well cleaned, boned and cut in pieces, put into three quarts of water with one head of celery, two or three onions, ditto carrots and turnips: add one pint of split peas, and boil all together sufficiently. Strain it through a cullendar, add pepper and mint to your taste, and boil it again. Sarah Griffin. Cue Cloth. Take of yellow Bees wax & Frankincence a quarter of a pound of Burgundy pitch half a pound, mill them together, & make a plaster. It is very effecasious for pains in the back - it is to be spread on thick leather & apply it to the part effected. Miss Chandler Restorative jelly A Calf's foot split put in a pan with two quarts of soft water, & one of new milk, a nutmeg bruised, tye a thick paper over it; set it in an oven with the bread, by the time the bread is baked the foot will be nearly dissolved, skim the fat off, & pour off the jelly for use. The patient to take a tea cup warm two or three times a day. Miss Chandler. Chicken Panada. Strip off the skin of a lean chicken & any little fat you find, put it in water sufficient to cover it & a little salt, when the scum rises take it off clean, then add a blade of mace, a thick piece of bread, let it boil till all the bones leave the meat, take them all out & beat the flesh & bread in a morter with the liquor, until twill pass through hair sieve. It is very palatable & a quarter of a pint at a time to taken twice a day. Miss Chandler
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Cheap peas soup Two red herrings well cleaned, boned and cut in pieces, put into three quarts of water with one head of celery, two or three onions, ditto carrots and turnips: add one pint of split peas, and boil all together sufficiently. Strain it through a cullendar, add pepper and mint to your taste, and boil it again. Sarah Griffin. Cue Cloth. Take of yellow Bees wax & Frankincence a quarter of a pound of Burgundy pitch half a pound, mill them together, & make a plaster. It is very effecasious for pains in the back - it is to be spread on thick leather & apply it to the part effected. Miss Chandler Restorative jelly A Calf's foot split put in a pan with two quarts of soft water, & one of new milk, a nutmeg bruised, tye a thick paper over it; set it in an oven with the bread, by the time the bread is baked the foot will be nearly dissolved, skim the fat off, & pour off the jelly for use. The patient to take a tea cup warm two or three times a day. Miss Chandler. Chicken Panada. Strip off the skin of a lean chicken & any little fat you find, put it in water sufficient to cover it & a little salt, when the scum rises take it off clean, then add a blade of mace, a thick piece of bread, let it boil till all the bones leave the meat, take them all out & beat the flesh & bread in a morter with the liquor, until twill pass through hair sieve. It is very palatable & a quarter of a pint at a time to taken twice a day. Miss Chandler
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