Substitute for Tea.—5 parts of petals of red rose dried, 1 part rosemary leaves, 2 parts balm leaves. Mix. A desert-spoonful makes half a pint of infusion. Use with cream and sugar, same as tea. Instead of the injury to the nervous system which foreign tea occasions, this is found to strengthen the stomach and nerves, and keep up a healthy digestion. It is not only far more healthy, but more economical, and quite as palatable.
Another.—Young strawberry flowers and leaves dried, not in the sun, but in the air, and not washed, and used same as China tea, are used in Germany, and found a good substitute; also, young and tender leaves of the sloe tree, or black thorn, properly dried.
Hair.—Honey water promotes its growth, made by mixing 4 lbs. honey, and 2 lbs. dry sand in a large vessel; distil with gentle heat, to a yellowish acid water.—See page 29.
Sugar Vinegar.—1 gallon water, 2 lbs. brown sugar, and little yeast. Expose 6 months to the sun.
Cream and milk can be very well imitated by beating an egg, and then pouring boiling tea over it gradually, to prevent its curdling.
Bread should never be eaten until 1 day old. Unless where the digestive powers of an ostrich are possessed, fresh hot bread will sooner or later bring on Dyspepsia, with its train of miseries.
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