^ Sweet TZag, tPot-pourri and other %ecipes {j£ 



as possible, scrape them with a ball-scraper letting them 

 lie three weeks in a sieve to dry ; then finish them with 

 a ball-scraper to your mind. r.-. 



AROMATIC VINEGARS 



Aromatic Vinegar for the Toilet and the Sick room. 



Put a handful of rosemary, of wormwood, lavender 

 and mint into a stone jar and cover with a gallon of strong 

 vinegar. Keep near a fire for 4 days and then strain, add 

 one ounce of powdered camphor. Bottle for use. 



The Toilet of Flora. 



Distilled Lavender Vinegar. 



Put into a stone cucurbit any quantity of fresh-gathered 

 Lavender Flowers picked clean from the Stalks ; pour 

 on them as much distilled Vinegar as is requisite to make 

 the Flowers float ; distil in a vapour-bath, and draw off 

 about three fourths of the Vinegar. 



In the same manner are prepared the Vinegars from 

 all other vegetable substances. Compound Vinegars are 

 made by mixing several aromatic substances together ; 

 observing only to bruise all hard woody ingredients, and 

 to let them infuse a sufficient time in the Vinegar before 

 you proceed to distillation. », • , 



Vinegar of the Four Thieves. 



Take of the tops of Sea and Roman Wormwood, Rose- 

 mary, Sage, Mint, and Rue, of each an ounce and a half ; 

 Lavender Flowers two ounces, Calamus Aromaticus, 



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