They took all my sugar and coffee, and left me only some meat and a small quantity of flour, a little salt and some baking powder.

Cut two leeks in slices like noodles, some cooked tomatoes which have been cooled and strained, some cauliflower, two tablespoons of sugar, a pinch sour salt, pepper and salt and let cook steadily.

of coarse salt, 6 oz. of coarse brown sugar, 1/2 oz. of saltpetre.

Every housewife knows that dry salt in contact with fresh meat gradually becomes fluid brine.

By this twofold process are separated from the blood the fluid portions of the renal secretion with soluble salts, and the urea with other waste material.

A little of the valuable vegetable salts are lost in the steaming, but not much.

Whosoever sleeps there of a night shall be crowded by walls which rub off into a faint feather-bed of the flavor and consistency of geese used whole, and have for his feverish breakfast in the morning a version of broiled ham as racy of attic-salt as the rasher of BACON'S essays.

"Bring a sponge and some volatile salts," said he.

Others are stripped and hung up by the arms, their feet are tied together, and the end of a heavy piece of timber is put between their legs in order to stretch their bodies, and so prepare them for the torturing lashand in this situation they are often whipped until their bodies are covered with blood and mangled fleshand in order to add the greatest keenness to their sufferings, their wounds are washed with liquid salt!

In the first place, the liquid is far more likely to be brought into contact with the diseased structures than is the solid salt.

Hungary has the richest salt mines in the worldwhere the extraction of one hundred weight of the purest stone salt, amounts to but little more than one shilling of your moneyand though that is sold by the government at the price of two to three and a half dollars, and thus the consumption is of course very restricted, this still yields a net revenue of five millions of dollars a yearto the Governmentbut no!

When the coal burns, the chief ultimate products of its combustion are carbonic acid, water, and ammoniacal products, which escape up the chimney; and a greater or less amount of residual earthy salts, which take the form of ash.

Let water, carbonic acid, and all the other needful constituents be supplied except nitrogenous salts, and an ordinary plant will still be unable to manufacture protoplasm.

I suppose that a man's mind does in time form a neutral salt with the elements in the universe for which it has special elective affinities.

A large number of the elements of the body unite one with another by chemical affinity and form inorganic salts.

For the souchy, put some water into a stewpan with a bunch of chopped parsley, some roots, and sufficient salt to make it brackish.

HORSERADISH SAUCE, No. 1 Grate a good-sized stick of horseradish; take some soup stock and a tablespoon of fat, salt and pepper to taste, a little grated stale bread, a few pounded almonds.

And finally, in 1787, the Italian chemist, Fabroni, made the capital discovery that the yeast ferment, the presence of which is necessary to fermentation, is what he termed a "vegeto-animal" substance; that is, a body which gives of ammoniacal salts when it is burned, and is, in other ways, similar to the gluten of plants and the albumen and casein of animals.

Some make eight species or kinds of savour, bitter, sweet, sharp, salt, &c., all which sick men (as in an ague) cannot discern, by reason of their organs misaffected.

The Indian we left here the evening before had gone and left nothing behind but a chunk of crystallized rock salt.

There he put a little of it into several different glasses, and dropping something out of one bottle into one glass, and something out of another bottle into another glass, soon satisfied himself that it contained medicinal salts in considerable quantities.

The pile, C, placed behind the receiver, consists of a piece of carbon, h, held by a partition, i, and covered with a salt of mercury, and of a plate of zinc, l, which is held at a distance from the mercurial salt by a spring, m, fixed to the insulating piece, n.

Steep the pieces of fowl as in the preceding recipe, then dip them into the yolk of an egg or clarified butter; sprinkle over bread crumbs with which have been mixed salt, mace, cayenne, and lemon-peel in the above proportion.

In most cases where poison is known, or suspected, to have been taken, the first thing to be done is to empty the stomach, well and immediately, by means of mustard mixed in warm water, or plain warm salt-and-water, or, better, this draught, which we call No. 1:Twenty grains of sulphate of zinc in an ounce and a half of water.

And yet the piety of Noah, the faith of Abraham, the wisdom of Moses, and the stoicism of Aurelius have proved alike a spiritual power,the precious salt which was to preserve humanity from the putrefaction of almost universal selfishness and vice, until the new revelation should arouse the human soul to a more serious contemplation of its immortal destiny.