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Julian Booker Thompson recipe and travel book, 1898
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Cousin Mary's Pie Crust 1 double scooped handfulls flour 1 large tablespoon lard good pinch salt Little " soda Add cold water a little at a time until you can stick it together nicely & then press together lightly & flatted out - Do not roll more than [illegible] PHYSICIANS, surgeons and hospital attendants are never weary of experimenting on the treatment of burns, says a writer. They seem to believe that there can be no simple remedy for the results of accidents of this sort, and therefore there must be all sorts of chemicals and compounds and ado about burns. They do not appear to know or will not believe that a simple paste of fresh lard and wheat flour is the very best possible dressing for a burn, that it will in almost every case restore the burned portion to its natural condition and that in ninety-nine cases out of 100 there will be no scar. But it is "an old woman's remedy," and therefore neither scientific nor official.
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Cousin Mary's Pie Crust 1 double scooped handfulls flour 1 large tablespoon lard good pinch salt Little " soda Add cold water a little at a time until you can stick it together nicely & then press together lightly & flatted out - Do not roll more than [illegible] PHYSICIANS, surgeons and hospital attendants are never weary of experimenting on the treatment of burns, says a writer. They seem to believe that there can be no simple remedy for the results of accidents of this sort, and therefore there must be all sorts of chemicals and compounds and ado about burns. They do not appear to know or will not believe that a simple paste of fresh lard and wheat flour is the very best possible dressing for a burn, that it will in almost every case restore the burned portion to its natural condition and that in ninety-nine cases out of 100 there will be no scar. But it is "an old woman's remedy," and therefore neither scientific nor official.
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