The ladies best companion; or, a golden treasure for the fair sex. Containing the whole arts of cookery ... With plain instructions for making English wines ... To which is added The art of preserving beauty ... / by Amelia Chambers. To which are added Every lady her own and family's physician ... also The family instructor ... And a great variety of other articles too numerous to be inserted in a title page.

  • Chambers, Amelia
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[1800?]
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Credit: The ladies best companion; or, a golden treasure for the fair sex. Containing the whole arts of cookery ... With plain instructions for making English wines ... To which is added The art of preserving beauty ... / by Amelia Chambers. To which are added Every lady her own and family's physician ... also The family instructor ... And a great variety of other articles too numerous to be inserted in a title page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a glafs of white wine, then make up fma]l bolufes, and when you have occafion to ufe it take one, which you mult difl'olve in rofe-water, hold a little to your nofe, and wafh it with the rofe-water. It will remove all difa- greeable impurities in the nofe, and make the breath fmell. fweet.' To 'take Worms■ from• the Nofe. Take one dram of the powder of fulphur, two drams of unflack’d lime, and infufe both into a gill of le- mon juice ; put them in an earthen veflel over a flow fire, until they are diffolved and properly mixed. When you ufe it, -dip a feather into it and rub it all over the nofe, when the worms will die and fall off, ■ but as they will leave pores in the Ikin, rub your nofe with oil of al- monds, . which you muft wafh off with juice of lemons, and you will not be troubled with them again. . To make fine red Pomatum for the Lips. Take an ounce of bullock’s marrow, the lame quan- tity of fine white wax, and melt both together with three ounces of pomatum, .put to it a dram of •■alkanet, and let it Hand in an earthen veflel over the fire till it has acquired a fine redifli colour ; take it off to cool, rub the lips with it, and they will appear.of a fine blooming colour. . To male a fine Water firr the Gums. . ' Take fix ounces offpirits of wine, half a pint of water, four ounces of. fcurvy-grafs, one ounce of cin- namon, two drams of cloves, of red rofes and lemon- pfel, each half an ounce, mix the whole together, then beat them in a morter, where they .mull: Hand a day ; then let them be dillilled in a glafs over a flow fire! When it has been fet to cool, let it (land fome days, then take a linen cloth, which you .mutt dip in it and rfcb the gums. .