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water and molasses, it makes a most delicious and wholesome drink.
Receipt to make the famous Thieves Vinegar.
Take of wormwood, thyme, rosemary, lavender, sage, rue and mint, each a handful;
pour on them a quart of the best wine vinegar, set them eight days in moderate
hot ashes, shake them now and then thoroughly, then squeeze the juice out of the
contents through a clean cloth; to which add two ounces of camphire. The use
thereof is to rinse the mouth, and wash there with under the arm pits, neck and
shoulders, temples, palms of the hands, and feet, morning and evening; and to
smell frequently thereat, has its salutary effects.
N. B. The above receipt did prove an efficacious remedy against the plague in
London, when it raged there in the year 1665.
Method of destroying the putrid Smell which Meat acquires during hot
Weather.
Put the meat intended for making soup, into a saucepan full of water, scum it
when it boils, and then throw into the saucepan a burning pit coal, very compact
and destitute of smoke, leave it there for two minutes, and it will have
contracted all the smell of the meat and the soup.
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