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AFTER cleansing your cask, put first a layer of white oak leaves, and then a layer of cucumbers, or whatever your pickles consist of and so on to fill your cask; intersperse between each layer dill seed, mustard seed, horse-raddish, &c and to every twenty cucumbers one bell of pepper. Form a composition of clear salt and water, not hardly sufficiently strong to bear an egg, to every gallon add one quart of good vinegar, scald and skim this pickle, and after cool to a degree of blood warmth, add it to your cask, and cover it tight.

If rightly performed, this method will preserve pickles the year round, and forms a very agreeable sauce.

TAKE a lump of strong British alum about two inches in length, which smooth down with a knife to the thickness of three quarters of an inch—apply this morning and evening, first wetting it with water. In five to seven days the cure will be complete.

TAKE an ounce each of liver of sulphur, roche alum and common salt, and two drams each of sugar candy and spermaceti; pound and sift these articles, then put the whole into a quart bottle, and add half a pint of brandy, three ounces of white lily water, and the same quantity of pure spring water; shake it well together, and keep it for use. With this liquid the face must be freely and frequently bathed; being