Fresh Earth

Ingredients

• a pint of jrachms of common salt in a pail
• seven ounces
• two forty ounces
• 5 phate of lime
• two solutions liquid
• one gallon
• four per cent solution of sul- phuric acid
• three ounces
• one ounce
• two ounces
• vinegar

Directions

1. th sprinkled ovet efficacious in

2. Fine dry ear about a room, }

3. placed in boxes absorbing foul odors.

4. Sulphate of iron, or copperass ith lime, is an excellent disin wells, slaughter-house, ditches, etc. sulphate of iron (copperas), r or gypsum), itriol), seven ounces.

5. in powder alone or rectant for privy: Or, charcoal, two forty ounces ; sul- fifty ounces ; sul- Mix well

6. OUL.ceS 5 phate of lime (plaste phate of zinc (white V and scatter dry, oF mix

7. CHLORIDE OF achm of nitrate of lead in a pint of

8. jrachms of common salt in a pail and allow the sediment

9. with water.

10. Dissolve half a dr boiling water, and two < of water. Mix the two solutions

11. liquid and hung up in

12. A cloth dipped in the ‘red to purify the most

13. lithat 1s requ {t also can be thrown down sinks,

14. o wash infected clothes in.

15. to settle. an apartment is a fetid atmosphere. drains, etc. ; good also t CARBOLIC ACID.

16. Impure carbolic acid, on® ounce ; water, one gallon. Mix and sprinkle over the floors of privies, about sinks, etc. Red clay mixed with a four per cent solution of sul- phuric acid, and a little carbolic acid, is also @ good

17. disinfectant.

18. 176 THE BREADMAKER’S COOKING LESSONS.

19. Chloride of lime is often deleterious, in close dwell. ings, from the amount of chlorine gas evolved ; but it is excellent for drains, ditches, etc. By adding vinegar or diluted sulphuric acid with it, the amount of chlorine gas is increased.

20. Common salt, three ounces; black oxide of manga- nese and oil of vitriol, each one ounce; water two ounces. Mix ina cup, and carry it through the apartments of the sick; but it should not be left in the room.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.