Copied by Susan A Shaner 7/12/08 loaned by Cindy McClintock, wife of Chris Shaner. This book was found in a desk in the Chris Shaner home.
Our author is Mazie Alice Shaner born July 17, 1901 daughter of George W Shaner 1863 - 1937 and Susan Phillips. George's parents were Jacob Shaner 1838 - 1892 and Hannah Hill. Jacob's parents were John Shaner born about 1808 who married Catherine. John's parents were Jacob Shaner born 1776 in Germany and Mary. He immigrated with his parents about 1795. Jacob was my 5th Great Grandfather. I decend from his son Johns brother Jacob Shaner 1817 - 1856 and his wife Mary Dugan. Chris decends from George W Shaner and Susan Phillips through their son Arthur Raymond Shaner and his son Lyle H Shaner 1928-1988.
It appears that Mazie copied information she found in her ancestors belongings into a 'scrapbook'
Inside cover:
Written by Mazie Shaner as found in Old Recording found in the Shaner Home
John Shaner settled in Penn Twp July 1829
[The following 10 pages are 1 inch smaller than the actual book and seem to be of a 3x5 ledger notebook masking taped to the spine in front of the remaining pages.]
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Cements for floor
2/3 of lime
1/3 of Coal ashes
All sifted with a small quanity of loam clay. Mix the whole together and temper it all well with water making it up into a heap let it lie for week or 10 days. Then temper it over again. After this heap it up for 3 or 4 days and [here is written 'temper it again' and then scratched out] repeat this tempering very high till it becomes smooth yeilding tough and glossy.
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[some words faded]
[illegible] ground then being [illegible] lay the floor 3 or 4 inches thick, making it smooth with a [trowel?] the hotter the season better and when it is thoroughly dried it will make the best floor for houses.
If anyone would have the floors look better, let them take lime of rag well tempered with whites of eggs. Covering the floor 1x2 in them before the under floor is to dry.
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This be well done it will look when rubbed with a little oil as transparent as metal or glass plaster of paris may also be used instead lime.
Cement for Roofs
Slake1 stone lime in large tub or barrel with hot water (boiling) covering tub or barrel to keep in steam. When slacked 6 quarts thru fine sieve. It will then be in the state of fine flour.
To this add 1 quart rock salt 1 gal water
1Slake is to add water to (lime) to produce calcium hydroxide or combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air
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Boil mixture and skim it clean.
To every 5 gallon of this add 3/4 lb potash 4 quarts of fine sand or sifted wood ashes. Both the above will take any coloring you please.
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Cement for preserving leaks around chimneys
Dry sand 1 part
Ashes 2 part
Clay dried 3 parts
pulverized
all to be finely pulverized and mixed into a paste with linseed oil.
Apply it soft and when it becomes hard, water will have no effect on it.
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paste that keeps 1 year
Dissolve 1 teaspoon Alum in 1 quart warm water when cold. Stir in as much flour as will give it the consistancy of thick cream being sure to beat up all lumps. Stir in as much rosin as will stand on a dime and 1/2 dozen cloves to give smell.
Have on fire 1 teakettle boiling water:pour the mixture
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to it stirring all the time In a few minutes it will be consistancy of mush pour into earthen vessal. Let it cool. Cover when needed take out a portion soften with water [rise?]
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Floors
Floor must be well cleaned then cracks are filled in with water gloss and powdered chalk or gypsum. After this a water gloss solution of 60 [tabs?] of the thickness of syrup is applied by a stiff brush. Color may be added to 2nd coat and additional coat may be added till finished gloss is received.
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and by pumicing2 of the last layer [?] adding a coat oil a still higher may be had.
2 to rub, smooth, clean, etc., with pumice
Roof composition for
1 measure fine sand
2 " sifted wood ashes
3 " lime
ground up with oil mix thoroughly and lay in with painters brush
1 coat oil
2 coat thick fire resistant
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This is one of my collection of scrapbooks of old time recipes prices etc.
Cider to keep sweet and to sweeten when sour. To keep cider perfect take a keg and bore hole in the bottom of it spread a piece of woolen cloth at the bottom. Then fill with clean sand closely packed. Draw your cider from the barrel and pour through sand and flannel. After this put into cleaned barrels which have had a piece of linen cloth
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2 by 7 in dipped into melted sulphur and burned inside of them therefore absorbing the sulphur fumes, then add 1/2 lb white mustard seed to each barrel.
If cider is souring when you get it add 1 quart of hickory ashes or 1 1/4 quart of other hardwood ashes stirred in each barrel will clarify it must then be racked3 off as pomace4 is what causes cider to sour.
3drain (wine or cider) from the dregs 4pulpy material remaining after the juice has been pressed from fruit
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Rural life 100 years ago starting year 1840-
The sheep and the spinning wheel were found on the majority of farms. The wool from the sheep was used for spinning wool, yarn weaving the wool yarn into cloth, knitting socks and mittens. In the year 1844 - Samuel Poust paid Daniel Derr $250 for weaving 25 yards flannel, and on April 24th 1845 Ezibll Hill6 paid him $1.16 for spinning 1 doz flax.
From the tallow of the sheep candles were made 3 parts mutton tallow 1 part [Ox Suet?] and little piece rosin melted together they were put in moulds and from the meat of the sheep many delicious dishes were served.
6This is probably Isabel Susan wife of Sylvester Hill
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On nearly every rural home the hard sugar maple was found and each year in the spring the trees were tapped and the sap drawn off and boiled down to the consistancy of syrup and by more boiling into maple sugar. This was kept for sweetening their food.
Also Honey bees were found on the majority of rural homes. The bees served two purposes honey for food and pollinating the blossoms of the fruit trees so that fruit would be plentiful.
The apple orchard was found in nearly all the rural homes and apples were plentiful.
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The older people used the apples for eating and pressing out juice, called making cider. This work was done in many instances on small home made press, and was a long tiresome job.
Apple butter was made by boiling cider down from 1/3 to 1/2 its full strength and apples were pealed and gotten ready the night before. Apple butter making was usually a neighborly affair and the neighbors gathered at the home and pared the apples, and visited. The apples were put into the cider and boiled for hours with constant stirring until thick
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enough to keep and fine grained. It was flavored with stick cinamon bark which cost 6 1/4 c¢ in Sept. 24th 1840
Fresh Apple cider to keep sweet was made {hoth?} to boiling point, put into stone bottles and jugs and kept air tight. It could be kept in this state for as high as 6 yrs if kept air tight. At a later period in History I am giving some formulas for perserving cider.
1 Barrel Cider
1 lb Mustard Seed
2 lb Raisins
1/4 lb cinnamon bark in sticks
Recipe No 2
When cider is in lively fermentation, draw off liquid strain through flannel and to each gallon cider add from 1/2 to 3/4 lb sugar according to sweetness desired. Let fermentation
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proceed until cider has taste to suit
Add 1/4 oz Sulphite of lime to each gallon cider shake well let stand 3 days.
Bottle for use. The Sulphite of lime should first be dissolved in 1 quart of cider before mixing with rest of cider.
No 3 Recipe
When fermentation commences in 1 barrel cider, draw off liquor, strain through flannel cloth, and pour into clean barrel
Add
3/4 oz Oil of Pure Wintergreen
3/4 oz Oil Sassafras
dissolved in 1 pint alcohol
Cider was also left sour for vinegar to be used in home perserving and cooking chestnuts and wild fruits were always very plentiful and as most families were very large children gathered
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chestnuts and dried wild fruit to sell to buy their school clothes. The fruits and vegetables were practically all dried for winter use.
Bread making was also a long process which had to be baked for large families. I do not know what year the dough tray was first used, but I find in old time book of Jacob Shaner where he was making dough tray for Jacob Smith year was 1878 - April 16th price for making was $2.50. In the year 1852 wheat was 1.00 B [probably abbreviated for bushel]- 1 Bushel Rye was 50¢
I will give recipe for making yeast year about 1862 or 3
To make yeast
Into 2 quarts water let 2 ounces Hops boil for 1/2 hour. Strain the liquor, and let it stand in white earthenware bowl when luke warm add small quanity salt 1/2 handful, 1/4 lb sugar. Take some of the liquor and well mix up into it 1/2 lb best flour, beating this up in the whole afterward The next day but one put in 1 1/2 lbs boiled mashed potatoes: let stand one more day after which it can be bottled for use.
It should be kept warm and near fire while making so as to keep about the temperature of new milk. It should also be stirred during the process of making.
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When bottled it should be kept in a cool place.
Bread
Cook potatoes enough to make 1 cupful when mashed. Use water potatoes were boiled in and add enough water to make 3 pints. Add 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 cup liquid yeast let thicken with flour until quite stiff let sponges rise all night in warm place. In the morning add enough flour to make stiff dough. Put in warm place till light form into loaves. Let rise again until light. Bake about 1 hr.
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Rye was browned in the oven and ground in coffee grinder and used as a beverage in many rural homes.
Soap making
The ashes of the Hardwood Oak Apple was used to make Lye for soap making the ordinary process being take a barrel place brick in bottom near opening, line barrel with straw. Then fill with ashes (about 3 to 5 percent lime to render lye more caustic) a hole was bored at the bottom barrel large wood tub was set under to catch lye. Hot water was poured over ashes (hot water made stronger Lye) when you obtained a large tub lye you put
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on to boil in large iron kettle and boiled the lye (until a sound [or soured] potato would float on surface) this was the farm wife specific gravity test and very accurate too.
Now start adding your melted fat by handfuls at a time and stir until the mixture gets creamy then began adding salt small handfuls at a time stirring carefully and rapidly until a ring made of the soapy matter remains on the stirring stick visible. Then let fire go out and
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allow soap to harden soft soap is made the same way without the addition of salt.
1 tablespoon Kerosene Oil
added to 1 pint of
soft soap and clothes
soaked over night in
this added to water
then boiled removes
stains and requires
little rubbing
[The following was written in someone elses handwriting]
Mt Zion Church -
On the 13th day of May 1855 Rev. F. Barnitz was regularly and unanimously elected the first pastor Mt Zion Lutheran Church. Penn Twp. Lyc. Co, Pa
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[alternate handwriting continues]
Mt Zion Church
Penn. Twp Lyc. Co. Pa.
The cornerstone of the Mt Zion church was laid on the sixth day July 1854, an appropriate sermon was preached by Rev. G. Parsons, Muncy Charge from Isiah 28 chapter and 16th verse.
The church was completed [here 'dedicated' is written and then scribbled out] in the fall and dedicated on Nov 30th The Rev. I. Welker of Williamsport preached the dedication sermon .
On the 9th day of december a meeting was held in the church for the purpose of organizing a congregation and the following resolutions were adopted.
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Whereas we feel fully persuaded that the interest of the Lutheran Church and the welfare of Christs kingdom in general would be promoted by the organization of a congregation in the Mt Zion Church. Therefore
1-Resolved that we the undersigned do now organize ourselves into an Evangecal Lutheran Church so that we may unitely promote each others welfare and [here the word 'the' is written and crossed off] advance the kingdom of our Lord in this section of the Country.
2-Resolved that we as a congregation will be governed by the the rules and regulations laid down by the genereal Synod which rules are found in the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn Book
3-Resolved that after we
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recieve the names of those who intend to commune on the following sabbath we will then proceed to elect 2 Elders 2 Deacons to attend to the duties of this office
After the reception of names an election was held which resulted as follows.
[the following was written in a darker ink with what appears to be a third handwriting]
/Peter Derr
Elder \Daniel Fry
\George Worthington
Deacons \Charles Fry
On the same day exercises were held preparatory to the celebration of the Lords supper after preaching a large class of Cathechisms we received as member of the Church by confirmation and Baptism
I had be insturcting the class during summer and fall. The following are the name of the members including catheshisms who com mune on 1 day Dec. 1854
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John Barto | Effie Kepner
Charles Fry |
George Worthington | Rosetta gray
Jonathan Worthington | Peter Derr
Daniel Fry |
Samuel Barto | By Confirmation
George Barto | Mary Barto
John Neufer | Anna Swank
Catherine Barto | Sara Martines
Christain Fry | Abraham Day
Elizabeth Derr | Sara Day | his
Charolette Worthington | wife
Elizabeth Barto | Jacob Day /wife
Sevilla Barto | Sara Day \ husband
Mary Neufer | Joseph Hamilton
Christian Gray | Valentine Kepner
Sevilla Frantz | Mary Flick
Mary Flick | Moses Kepner
Mary Barto | Jacob Barto
Anna Fry | By vote officers
Levina Shaner Charity Worthington
Sevilla Fry
Sevilla Worthington
Sara Weaver
Mary Frantz
John Flick
Received by Baptism
Emma Day
Catherine Kepner
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[We now return to the original handwriting]
The majority of mothers owned a set of quilting frames and during the winter months many beautiful quilts were made. There were usually a group of neighbors would assist each other in doing the quilting. This was called quilting bee. The older women usually took 1 day a week for visiting. Some cows were usually found on the rural home and oxen and cattle for beef. The mother usually milked the cows, strained milk into crocks, and put into spring house in water. The cream arose to top surface of milk and was skimmed, left sour and churned into butter. From the buttermilk cottage cheese was made by setting it in hot water
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until curd formed. She then strained into a large muslin bag and left the whey drain off the skimmed milk was used for drinking and feeding calfs and pigs.
Every farm home contained a couple of hogs.
The hogs were killed and prepared for future use. This was called butchering. From the hog saugage was made lard was rendered for baking and frying. The hams and shoulders were cured in a salt pickle and smoked for future use. I find in the year 1854 89 lbs Beef cost $3.67 and
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40 lbs pork cost $2200 working wages for this period was from 1 dollar to $1.25 per day.
Cows for this peroid cost $1000 Veal Calves $250 and veal was on May 11th 1854 - 13 1/2 lb for 81¢
They also stored butter for future use by adding sugar Saltpetre and Covered with Salt in a large Crock
pigs were worth $15 each
apple 50¢ Bushel
potatoes 50¢ Bushel
hay 1050 lb-$825
Straw 18 3/4¢ Bundels 3
ticking 25¢ yard
1 gallon Molasses 25¢
Butter 2 1/2¢ pound
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Funerals for infants still born. The parents usually made a nice pine box and lined it with cotton and white muslin and took to cemetery and buried the child themselves.
The first date I have on funeral is 1885. The funeral cost 40 dollars
The graves were dug by group friends and the ladies always went to the bereaved home and began bathing killing chickens, and getting ready for dinner after the service. The friend and neighbors always
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returning to the bereaved home for dinner usually from 50 to 150 people.
Nearly everyone had laid back underwear and clothing for their burial clothes. The neighbors usually gave the dead bath, and laid them out. The funerals were always forenoon funerals. The mother and eldest daughters did the sewing for the families by hand. Mothers always assisted anthter mother into bringing new life into the world.
They nearly all had a herb garden, containing Tansy Black Currants, Reubarb Hop vine, Boneset, Pennyroyd Sage, Before the birth of the little one they
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took teas of Spikenard, Blue Cohosh, etc to help make easier confinement. So the new mother would have plenty of nourishment they gave her infusion of steeped ripe elderberries with out sweetening.
In the year of 1841 Boarding was 7 days Boarding $1.75, wages were 75¢ per day, 37 1/2 cents per day for planting corn, 25¢ day for hoeing corn, 50¢ day for thrashing, muslin 17¢ yd, cider 1.50 barrel, Rum [Whiskey was written first here and faded then 'Rum' was written in black ink] 25¢ quart, plug tobacco 03¢ plug, 1 ax 2.25, 1 dong fork $1.25, coffee 16¢ lb
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and men did any kind of work from [making is written then crossed out] Building Saw mills weaving cloth, making Harrow, making cultivated gumming saws repairing tanner, making dough tray wood tubs, repairing well buckets, making whiskey barrels, Building Houses and barns hoeing corn and the names of some these older people on recover were as follows
Daniel Derr
D.T. Edwards
Daniel Hill
T Edkin _ 1 gallon molasses
Frederick Hill
[written next to these names] : from 1840 to 1885 Owner of 1 book names of people the Shaners worked for as Carpenters
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James Mackey
E Edwards
John Green
Catherine Bartlow
Oliver Branner
George Woodley
Joseph Hill
Jacob Gray
William Bartlow
Jes Hill
Charles Host
Isreal Hill
Charles Shoemaker
Jacob Frantz
Samiel Poust
Ea??e Noofer
John Housekencht
Thomas Opp
John Sones
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B. Langcake
Benjiman Morris
Thomas Tagert
Gertain Biddle
James Leard
Peter Derr
Jacob Hill
David Frantz
John Opp
Hiram Staten
Heskim Biddle
Ezibel Hill
Henry Laurenson
Benjamain Hill
Daniel Hill
Jackson Sones
Samuel Reamsnider
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Philip Stetler
Nathaniel and Robert Rob
Edward Lyons
John Stake
Martin Dunbar
John Fry
Alfred Lyons
Georg Kamp
Elias Reese
John Warn
Mark Anders
Charles Thomas
Bright Panteon
Henry Gardner
Philip Smith
Elizabeth Hill
George Houseknecht
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Leroy Palmer
Benjiman Houseknecht
Philip Secules
Milton Frantz
Nelson Snyder
Daniel Smith Sr
William Ritter
Daniel G Frantz
David Phillips
Crouse Stevenson
Hyram Croman
Francis Boop or Bool
Charles Houseknecht
Charles Holt
Moses Kepner
Charles Fry
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Charles Poust
Zackriah Bool [not written here we spell Bull]
John R Stevenson
Sylestver Bool
George Hamilton
William Ball
George Fry
Franklin Phillips
Samuel Bartlow
Millard Fague
Harvey Hill
Solmon Shaner
Valentine Kepner
Elizabeth Fague
John Laird
David Reese
Samuel Kahler
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George Barto
Issaac Beeber
William Star
William & Charles Beaver
John G Barto
Jacob Barto
Morris Ellis
Jacob Poust
These are some of the names in these old books. They took wheat, Buckweat, Rye, Beef, etc on work. These names were people they worked for
[written here by another hand is 'Hannah Hill was Geo Shaner mother George Hill was Geo Shaner Uncle]
Jacob Shaner George Shaner were Carpenters and those were the names of people they worked for
Derr, Shaner & Hill
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[written first is the word 'copy' so this is probably noted to be a copy of the original document]
Old Fashion Store Bill
Date Sept 16 - 1841 Wm. Bartlow by lot of store goods Bill no 7
8 lbs chalk 6 1/4 .50
1 auger 6 grt. .60
1 " 5/8 .25
By 1 silk handkerchief 1.25
1 quart Rum .25
1 Bottle .18 1/4
1 lb tobacco .37 1/2
1 pair gloves .75
1 cinnamon bark .06 1/4
1 clove 06 1/4
1 plug tobacco .03
1 shovel 1.00
1 dong fork 1.25
2 yds cheek 30¢ yd .60
1 quart whiskey .12 1/2
1 pair combs .25
1 lamp 1.00
18 yds muslin 17¢ 3.06
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1 lb coffee .16
1 file .12 1/2
2 files 25
1 auger .30
1 auger .20
1 Bottle W---- 25
1 ax 2.25
3 plugs tobacco .13
1 Cap $2.50
1 pr splints .7 1/2
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In the year 1862 doctors charged $1.25 to call at the rural home. In the year Feb 1869 - the prison temporary jail was in the basement of the court house at Williamsport and the new prison was rapidly nearing completion and will be in readiness for partial occupancy by the opening session of our Courts April 1869
I also found that Jacob Shaner made John G Barto 1 pump for $5.00 in the year 1865 also in the year 1860 - 1/2 bushel clover seed cost $2.25
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1840 Sewing
Catherine Bartlow
By 9 1/4 lbs Butter 12 1/2¢ 1.14
By making 1 vest .50
" " 1 pair pants .62 1/2¢
" " 2 shirts
at 25c shirt .50¢
" " 1 fine shirt .37 1/2¢
By hemming
1 handkerchief .6 1/2¢
" knitting 1 pair socks .25
By spinning 10 doz
yarn at .15c doz $1.50
By 1 Barrel cider $1.50
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Old fashioned Barn Raising carpenter work was very much different than it is today. Practically all the framing and boring was done before hand the logs and frame work was held together with large wooden pine. The boring was done with hand operated boring machines when the frame work was ready to be put together a Barn Raising was held with any where from fifty to 100 men assisting. The ladies going along to help prepare and serve delicious dinner and visit together
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Balm of Gilead Salve
(popular buds)
Take large handful balm of Gilead Buds and life everlasting melt mutton tallow then add herbs and steep until all the virtues are extracted then strain add 1/2 oz camphor gum stir pour into jars.
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Salve for Cuts Bruises
1 lb Rosin
1 lb beeswax
1 sheeps tallow
1 1/4 lb raw linseed oil
simmer down until proper consisitency
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Mutton Tallow
Salve for softening skin
Take melt 1/2 lb mutton Tallow then dissolve 1 oz gum Camphor into it. Then add 1 oz glycerine remove from stove. When well mixed beat until it cools store in cold cream jars. A very Old Formula
Mutton Tallow Salve
for sores and felon
1/2 lb mutton Tallow
1/2 lb Beeswax
1/2 lb Rosin
1 oz Oil [spike?]
Melt altogether but oil. Add oil when mixure is sill warm, stir until cool.
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Old Fashioned
Spring Tonic
12 oz Sasparilla
6 oz guara cum [guar gum?] shavings
4 oz Wintergreen leaves
4 oz Sassafras Root Bark
4 oz Elder flowers
3 oz yellow Dock
3 oz Burdock Root
6 oz Dandelion Root
2 oz Bittersweet Root
All bruised7. place in a suitable vessal. Add 1 pint alcohol 1 pint or more water to cover whole keep tightly covered. Set into moderately warm place 3 or 4 days pour off 1 pint of the tincture set it aside add water to ingredients. Boil to obtain full strength pour off. Add more water.
7To pound (berries, for example) into fragments; crush
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Boil again then strain the two waters and boil down to make 1 quart then add Tincture first poured off and 2 1/2 lbs gran sugar simmer to make syrup. When cool bottle and seal up tight. Dose 1 tablespoonful 1/2 hr before meals and bedtime. This is Very Old Formula.
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To keep Butter for Winter use into 6 lbs fresh butter work a large spoonful salt
1 tablespoon saltpetre
1 " powdered sugar
Pack in clean crock cover with salt.
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Old Fashoned
Revival Service
About 1875 to 1889
The old fashioned revival service, and spelling bees, be held for lettermens of corn metres and place to get together. In the revival service if you thought you were not right with god. You went out to the alter and prayed and shouted until you felt your sins were forgiven and your soul was at peace with God. The old fashioned spelling bees and singing school were usually held in school houses and were about the only form of amusement for the young. Each child own his or her books for school
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Carbonated Drink
Take 2 quarts Ice water
14 tablesppons vinegar
2 teaspoons ground ginger
sweeten with sugar to taste
add 1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cream tarter
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bought by the parents. The poor parents did not have full sets of books so for their children so the teacher gave them oral geography and history etc. But each child must own Reading Book spelling Book and writing book Arithmetic. My father George Shaner owned full set books Arthmetoc Reader Geography speller History Metal Arthrimetic Dictionary I still have Sevilla Shaners Reading Book - 1851- [something illegible]
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Keeping fresh meat without ice 75 years ago
Place in large earthenware pans, putting clean heavy stones on it and covering it with skim milk. The milk will become sour, and may be used as food for pigs and the meat will be found to have kept its natural primitive freshness even after 8 to 10 days.
This old German method where no ice house or spring house was wanting.
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Inflammatory Rheumatism
Make a poultice of stewed pumpkin. Renew every 15 minutes until the inflammation is drawn out. The smell will be offensive, when the poultices are removed due to the fever being drawn out. Was also used for inflammation of the bowels
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To perserve milk
Put the milk into bottles then place them in a sauce pan with cold water, and gradually raise it to the boiling point: take it from the fire and instantly cork the bottles, then raise the milk once more to the boiling point for 1/2 minutes finally let the bottles cool in the waater in which they were boiled in. Milk thus treated will remain good for 6 months.
It is said that this formula was used by immigrants for their children while on voyage.
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To Perserve Eggs
1 quart salt
1 pint slacked lime
3 gallons water
dissolve
put down eggs in this liquid in crock will keep eggs for years.
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Home Made Hard Laundry Soap
5 lbs grease
1 can Lye
1/2 cup powered Borax
1/2 cup sugar
3 pints cold water
1 tablespoon Ammonia
1 dessert spoon Baking Soda
Put Lye in earthenware dish pour on water reserving 1 cup which put in small dish. Into this dish dissolve sugar borax and soda. Put in Ammonia warm and strain grease and when cool add Lye
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to grease. Stir well with wooden stick, then add contents of smaller dish. Stir until thick and smooth then pour into box lined with wax paper. Let harden and cut into cakes. After 6 weeks it will be ready for use.
ointment for
cracked hands
Rub together in a mortar, by weight 5 parts glycerine 4 parts yolks of hens eggs. No better ointment can be made for hands, will keep for years.
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Root Beer
For each gallon water take
1/2 oz hops
1/2 oz Burdock Roots
1/2 oz yellow dock Root
1/2 oz Sarsaparella Root
1/2 oz Dandelion Root
1/2 oz spikenard Roots
bruised. boil 2 minutes and strain while hot add 10 drops each of Oil Spruce, Oil Sassafras, Wintergreen when cool enough not to scald your hand. Put in 2 or three tablespoons yeast, 3/8 pint of molasses or 1/2 lb sugar makes 1 gallon
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Childrens Dress Uninflammable [illegible note made here] Anyone of these three substances may be used phosphate of Ammonia Tungstate of Soda, Sulphate of Ammonia can be mixed in the starch at the cost of about 2¢ dress. 75 years articles of apparel [?] to these agents, can if they burn at all or smoulder and in not case can they blaze up in the sudden and terrible manner in which so many fatal accidents have occured to the fair wearing of Crinoline
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Waterproofing Fabrics
This process was used by the French for the Tunics of the French soldiers during Crimean war
Take 2 1/4lb or 2 lbs 4 ounces Alum dissolve in 10 gallons boiling water : then in a seperate vessel 2 1/4 lb sugar of lead in 10 gallons water: then mix the two solutions. The cloth is now well handled in this liquid until every part of it is penetrated. Then is is squeezed out and dried in the air or
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a warm apartment then it is well washed in old water and dried again. When it is fit for use if necessary the cloth may be dipped and dried twice before being washed. The liquor appears curdled when the Alum and lead solutions are mixed togther. This is the result of double decomposition, the sulphate of lead, which is an insoluble salt being formed The Sulphate of lead
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is taken up- in the pores of the cloth, and it is unaffected by rain or moisture and yet it does not render the cloth air tight such cloth is also partially non inflammable a solution of Laum itself will render cloth, prepared as described, partially waterproof, but is not so good as sulphate of lead such cloth - cottons or woolens - sheds rain like the feather son the back of a Duck.
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Gypsy linement
1 oz Oil Cedar
1 oz Oil spike
1 oz " Wintergreen
1/2 oz Camphor gum
1 tablespoon surpentine
3 eggs mix well shake together add 1 quart cider vinegar let stand for week shaking well everyday will be almost white when ready to use. This recipe was give by gypsy Lady External Use
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Milk Soap
2 gallons whole sweet milk
1 quart water
1 can Lye
Dissolve lye in water using stone jar only. Let solution cool to temperature of freshly drawn milk then pour slowly the lye water into stone jar containing the milk, pouring round and round. Do not stir as blending must be done by pouring back and forth from
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one jar to the other several times when sort of thickened pour into shallow box let stand 24 hrs. Then cut in small cakes. Cover box with cloth let stand another 24 hrs. After cut then put away to cure.
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Peppermint Water
Oil Peppermint 1/2 teaspoonful carbonate of Magnesia Distilled water 1/4 pints 2 Tub oil with magnesia add water gradually filter thru blotting paper. Ammonia water is made the same way.
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Nasal Catarrh 8
To 1/2 pint rain water
1 oz common table salt
1 oz powdered Borax
1 oz Baking Soda
When dissolved take 1 tablespoonful solution, 3 tablespoonful solution, 3 tablespoons warm water, and snuff up the nostrils at bed time.
8 excessive build-up of mucus in one of the airways, or cavities, of the body
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Blackberry Cordial
To 2 quarts Black berry juice
1 lb granulated sugar
1/2 oz nutmeg \
1/2 " nutmeg powdered tied in bag
1/2 " cinnamon /
1/2 oz clove
Boil together a short time when cold add 1 pint Brandy
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Salve
Bittersweet Roots 1 lb
Elder Roots 1 lb
Hop vine and leaves 1/4 lb
Plainten Lop and leavee 1/4 lb
Tobacco 2 oz
Boil in rain water to get out strength then press through cloth and boil down to 1/2 ;int liquid. Now add
1 lb unsalted Butter
1 oz rosin
1 oz Beeswax
simmer over slow fire until all water is evaporated
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Soft soap by new method
To 6 gallon soft water add 3 lbs best hard soap (finely cut)
1 lb Sal Soda
4 tablespoons Hartshom [?}
Boil all together until entirely dissolved. Pour into convenient vessals. When cold it is ready for use. Makes 50 lb soft soap
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Tallow Soap
Put 7 lbs Tallow
3 lbs Rosin
2 lb Potash
6 gallon water
Into large Iron kettle and boil for 3 to 5 hrs. Pour into form let tand over night cut in cakes lay in sun to dry and harden 3 or 5 days then put away to cure.
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Cold Cream
Oil sweet almonds 5 oz
Spermacete 2 oz
white wax 2 oz
Melt the above together at low het and while they are cooling, stir into the mixture, the following previously prepared
1 dram Borax
1 1/2 oz glycerine
3 oz Rose water
heat to near boiling point, and when cool add perfume mix and stir until cold. Pour into jars.
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For Cataract
front vision only
Mexican Remedy
Apply milk of coconut in eye with eye dropper, only a couple application are needed is old Mexican Remedy
Honey
Strained Honey dropped into the eye dropper is for front vision Cataract. Get Honey in Comb extract it and use.
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The Mexicans claim cataract will fall from eyes like daindruff it takes a few days after the coconut treatment.
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Fire proof wash
for Roofs
Slake lime in a lose box to prevent the escape of steam. When slacked pass through sieve. To every 6 quarts of this lime add 1 quart rock salt 1 gallon water after this boil and skim it clean. To every 5 gallons this solution, add by slow degrees 3/4 lb potash and 4 quarts fine sand. Color if desired. This paint is applied with a paint brush
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This was looks as well as paint, is almost as durable as slate. It will stop small leaks in roof, prevent moss from growing on it, and render it incombustible from sparks falling on it when applied to brick work it utters the bruck entirely impervious to rain, endures as long as paint.
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Old Fashioned
Apple Wine
Dissolve 60 lbs brown sugar into 15 gallons fresh cider let dissolve well then put mixture into clean barrel then fill barrel up within 2 gallon of being full with frest clean cider, put barrel in cool place leave out 48 hr then put in bung with small vent until fermentation wholly ceases bung up tight. In 1 yr wine will be fit for use. This wine needs no racking the longer it stands on the lees the better
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Making Wood look like stone
5 parts lime
6 parts powedered Rosin
1/ part pure linseed Oil
Heat must be used when mixing the ingredients. Be sure your container is large enough so their is no danger of the oil running over. After the mixture is dissolved apply to wood while hot with a brush.
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Old fashioned
Apple Butter
Select 2 bushel apples 1 bu sweet 1 bu sour. Pare quarter and slice them. Take 1 barrel fresh sweet cider put in large copper or brass kettle. Boil down about 1/2. Add sweet apples first stirring constantly for from 1/2 to hr then add sour apples and stir continually until apples are well cooked and smooth from 5 to 7 hrs add spices take from fire pack into crocks. Cover with heavy brown paper keep in dry place.
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Linement
for Man or Beast
Powdered aloes 1 oz
powdered myrrh 1 oz
Balam Fir 1 oz
troy weight
Alcohol 8 fluid ounces let stand 14 days filter. Dose 10 to 20 drops on sugar 3 times day
Washing Fluid
poison
1 can Lye
2 oz powdered Borax
1 oz Ammonium Carbonate
1 gallon water
Dissolve lye and borax in water then add ammonium carbonate and stir well. Let settle pour off clear part into jug. Will soften hardwood.
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Cherry Cider
30 gallons fresh apple cider
8 quarts dried black cherries
1 quart elderberries
75 lb brown sugar
If you desire a small amount proportion the quantities and ingredients accordingly.
Tallow for moulding candles
To 1 lb tallow take 1/4 lb common rosin melt them together and mould the candles the usual way. This gives a candle as hard as wax and superior lighing power.
Back cover
Fireproofing Childrens
Clothing
Borax 7 oz
Boric Acid 3 oz
Hot water 2 quarts
Dip clothing in this after washing rinsing. Must be used at each washing.
Ammonium Sulphate 1 lb 9 1/2 oz
Water 1 gallon
Enough ousehold ammonia to give ammonia odor for cotton sawdust fiber board
