SIMPLE REMEDIES
Strong tea is an antidote to many poisons. Honey and lemon juice (equal parts) make an excellent mixture foi soothing a husky throat. Stick cinnamon crushed and boiled in milk will produce a comforting drink for an incipient cold, while iu olden days many a dame carried a tiny silver nutmeg grater on her girdle to make the famed nutmeg tea (one nutmeg to a pint of boiling water), of which she sipped one small teacup at bedtime to induce a sound and dreamless sleep. Last, but not least, here is the recipe for the renowned "beauty bath" used by Mary Queen of Scots. Its ingredients are all simple kitchen ones, although the total allowance is undoubtedly munificent. First dissolve Soz kitchen salt and 3§oz bicarbonate of soda in one quart water. Then melt 31b honey in 3 quarts warm milk. Add first the tonic and soothing agents (salt and soda) to the warm bath water, and then the beautifying ingredients (milk and honey). The result, we are told, was amazing. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21780, 20 April 1934, Page 19
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173SIMPLE REMEDIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21780, 20 April 1934, Page 19
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