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Javelle Water

Many persons ing, bring it down. In 6 months it should be keep on hand a supply of Javelle water, small bottled, and the corks tied down or wired. quantities of which are sufficient to render This produces a domestic real champagne, the most soiled linen perfectly white. It is in no way inferior to the genuine imported prepared by taking 4 pounds sal-soda to 1. article. pound chloride of lime in 1 gallon water. Put 6418. Imitation White Frontignac the sal-soda into a vessel over the fire, add 1 Wine. Boil 18 pounds white powdered gallon boiling water; let it boil for 10 or 15 sugar, with 6 gallons water, and the whites of minutes, then add the chloride of lime by 2 eggs well beaten; then skim it, and put in throwing it, free from lumps, into the soda 1/4 peck elder flower from the tree that bears water. When cold, pour into a jug or large white berries; do not keep them on the fire. bottle and cork tightly. Where it is desirable When nearly cold, stir it, and put in 6 spoonto have a larger quantity, the following mix- fuls lemon juice, 4 or 5 of yeast, and beat well ture can be taken: Stir 5 pounds chloride of into the liquor; stir it every day; put 6 lime into 2 pails warm water; dissolve 10 pounds best raisins, stoned, into the cask, and pounds glauber salt (sulphate of soda) in 1 tun the wine. Stop it close, and bottle in 6 pail water; also 4 pounds sal-soda in 1 pail months. When well kept, this wine is an water. The contents of the 4 pails can be excellent imitation of Frontignac. poured together and kept in any suitable 6419. Imitation Red Frontignac tight vessel. Such a quantity as the above Wine. This is made in the same manner, ought to last a long time, as a dipperful of it and with the same ingredients as the white would bleach a large quantity of linen or wine (see No. 6418), except that dark elderother goods. The materials are cheap, and flowers are used instead of white. the mixture easily made. (See No. 4787.) 6420. Cure for Fever and Ague and