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add a quarter of a pint of oil of fweet-almonds, fhake it very 
well together, put a little of it into a cup, warm it blood warm, 
rub it well on your head, and comb it dry. 
A powder for the heart-burn. 
TAKE white chalk fix ounces ; eyes and claws of Crabs, of 
each an ounce; oil of nutmeg fix drops ; make them into a fine 
powder. About a dram of this in a glafs of cold water is an 
infallible cure for the heart-burn. 
A fine lip falve. 
TAKE two ounces of virgin’s wax, two ouncesof hog’s lard, 
half an ounce of fpermacetti, oneounceof oil of fweet-almonds, 
two drams of balfam of Peru, two drams of alkanet root cut 
fmall, fix new raifins {fared fmall, a little fine fugar, fimmer 
them all together a little while ; then ftrain it off into little pots* 
It is the fineft lip falve in the world. 
5 to make Carolina fnow halls. 
TAKE half a pound of rice, wafh it clean, divide it into fix 
parts 5 take fix apples, pare them and fcoop out the core, in 
which place put a little lemon peel {fared very fine; then have 
ready fome thifs cloths to tie the balls in : put the rice in the 
cloth, and lay the apple on it, tie them up clofe ; put them into 
cold water, and when the water boils, they will take an hour and 
a quarter boiling: be very careful how you turn them into the 
difh, that you don’t break the rice, and they will look as white 
as fnow, and make a very pretty difh. The fauce is, to this 
quantity, a quarter of a pound of frefh butter, melted thick, a 
glafs of white wine, a lit tie nutmeg and beaten cinnamon, made 
very fweet with fugar : boil all up together, and pour it into a 
bafon, and fend to table. 
A Carolina rice pudding . 
TAKE half a pound of rice, wafh it clean, put it into a fauce- 
pan, with a quart of milk, keep it fiirring till it is very thick 5 
take great care it don’t burn ; then turn it into a pan, and grate 
fome nutmeg into it, and two tea fpoonfuls of beaten cinnamon, 
a little lemon peel (bred fine, fix apples, pared and chopped 
fmall: mix all together with the yolks of three eggs, and fweet- 
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