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Eye Water - Mrs [Coultman?]
3 gills of boiling water, 1 pennyworth of white copperas to be burnt to a fine powder then mix with a lump of double refined sugar the copperas to be held betwixt the mouth of the tongues. 
French Polish
1 pint of spirits of wine
1/2 oz of gum seed lac
1/2 oz of shell lac
1/2 oz of landerac infuse for about a fortnight a large Bung to be covered with the coarsest Flannel & wetted with the above, then tightly covered with annother peice of flannel witch must be sprinkled with cold drawn linseed oil, rub the Furniture with it in a circular motion.
Orange Jelly
Dissolve in 1 pint of water 1 oz of Isinglass when nearly dissolved add the rind of 1 lemon, strain the juice of the lemon, 1 Seville and 12 China oranges put it to the Isinglass and add sugar to your taste let it boil 2 or 3 minuets, then add a small glass of red current wine, or a little Brandy strain it through a muslin, if it is put into the skins, let it stand to cool a little, after it is boiled, after the pulp is taken out the rinds may be put in cold salt & water. March 24, 1825

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Eye Water - Mrs [Coultman?] 3 gills of boiling water, 1 pennyworth of white copperas to be burnt to a fine powder then mix with a lump of double refined sugar the copperas to be held betwixt the mouth of the tongues. French Polish 1 pint of spirits of wine 1/2 oz of gum seed lac 1/2 oz of shell lac 1/2 oz of landerac infuse for about a fortnight a large Bung to be covered with the coarsest Flannel & wetted with the above, then tightly covered with annother peice of flannel witch must be sprinkled with cold drawn linseed oil, rub the Furniture with it in a circular motion. Orange Jelly Dissolve in 1 pint of water 1 oz of Isinglass when nearly dissolved add the rind of 1 lemon, strain the juice of the lemon, 1 Seville and 12 China oranges put it to the Isinglass and add sugar to your taste let it boil 2 or 3 minuets, then add a small glass of red current wine, or a little Brandy strain it through a muslin, if it is put into the skins, let it stand to cool a little, after it is boiled, after the pulp is taken out the rinds may be put in cold salt & water. March 24, 1825