A good recipe for the Bechamel sauce is the following: One ounce of butter browned with one ounce of flour.

"My great-grandmother's recipes," I said, "are queer things to handle.

A good recipe for the Bechamel sauce is the following: One ounce of butter browned with one ounce of flour.

Water in which peas have been boiled is given for measles, and a Lincolnshire recipe for cramp is cork worn on the person.

An Irish recipe for sore-throat is a cabbage leaf tied round the throat, and the juice of cabbage taken with honey was formerly given as a cure for hoarseness or loss of voice.