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Recipe from Mrs. Cretia Adams, 1908.

Dyspepsia Cure, page 256

Two ounces lime water, 4 ounces of sweet milk, 10 grains of salt. To make lime water, take 2 table-spoonfuls of unslacked lime or 3 or air slacked, and pour 3 quarts of boiling water (rain water) let it settle and get 2 quarts of clear water. Put in it a glass or a stone jar. {sic}

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.

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