Recipes

This section of the //Lady's Book// contains recipes and useful housekeeping tips, organized into categories such as "Miscellaneous Cooking," "Cakes, Puddings, etc.," "Contributed Receipts," and "Miscellaneous." The latter category includes such helpful hints as the best way to feed chickens, how to patch stoneware, escape from fire, clean stains from mahogany, and prevent ingrown nails. Many of these useful tips were sent in by subscribers.
 * "Receipts, &c." **

"Size for Attaching Paper to Walls-- None but the best size should be used for attaching paper to walls. Many a fever has been caused by the horrible nuisance of corrupt size used in paper-hanging the bed-rooms. The nausea which a sleeper, in such a case, is aware of, on waking in the morning, should be a warning needing no repetition. Down should come the paper at any cost or inconvenience." --January 1864  "Cautions Against the Skin of Raisins-- It has been noticed that several children have died from convulsions produced by eating the skins of raisins. Dr. Dewees, of Boston, mentions the deaths of three children from this cause, and remarks that there is no stomach, unless it be that of the ostrich, that can master the skin of the raisin." --February 1864

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