THE SKIN OF A LEMON

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 August 1911, Page 2

THE SKIN OF A LEMON

A veritable beauty-box and medicine chest is obtained within the aromatic skin of a lemon. The juice is an excellent astringent for wrinkles, whilst freckles and sunburn are best treated with a mixture of juice and white of raw egg, equal quantities of which shoujdwbe beaten together, and then thiclie|&j*j over a slow fire untib they foj^H smooth/ paste. For the reli^^H

bruises/ a poultice of breadcrumbs oatmeal, and lemon juice is found to be very, effectual and dandruff is frequently cured by rubbing . the scalp^ with a flannel dipped in J:he undiluted juice. When the complexion is sallow, and there is*evi: dence of a sluggish liver, it is a good thing to suck a lemon, just as one would an orange. Lemon juice aids digestion, and this is why slices of the fruit are served with fish, curries, made dishes, rich puddings and sometimes with thick soups; whilst acute indigestion is often relieved by taking the juice of a whole lemon in a wineglass of water about>an hour after each meal. A cure for obstinate Warts is found in lemon peel soaked for several hours in vinegar. The peel should then be bandaged over the warts, and after a few applications they will disappear. The above recipes are extracted from an old manuscript book which bears the date of the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the "stillroom" was to be found in every well-appointed house.