But indeed they were not all, for sometimes there were two or three other drugs in hand, interfering, perhaps troublesomely, with the simple division of therapeutics into the two provinces of rhubarb and sulphuric acid.
Rhubarb stalks, or the Persian apple, is the earliest in gradient for pies, which the spring offers.
Take sulphate of zinc, sixty grains; rhubarb and ipecac, each thirty grains; cayenne, sixty grains.
Make into three pills and take a pill twice a day, with the compound aloes or rhubarb pill every night.
I have planted rhubarb roots in the San Joaquin valley and find the root crowns rot below the surface.
The old-fashioned summer rhubarb usually goes off that way in very hot localities.
The winter rhubarb varieties do well in hot districts if the roots are planted from September 15 to May 1, while in cooler sections, April, May, June and July are the best months and will insure a crop the following winter.
Rhubarb pies made in this way are altogether superior to those made of the fruit stewed.
Take tincture of Jamaica ginger one ounce, tincture of rhubarb one ounce, tincture of opium half ounce, tincture of cardamom one and one-half ounces, tincture of kino one ounce.
Turn out on a platter upside down, so that the rhubarb will be on top.
Rhubarb Jam= 6 Stalks of Rhubarb 3 Oranges 1 Lemon 4 Cupfuls of Sugar Cook the rhubarb and rind and juice of the lemon and oranges together for twenty-five minutes.
To Keep Rhubarb Through the Winter= Fill preserve jars with cold water.
Cut the rhubarb into small pieces, as you would for a pie, and drop them into the jars.
Rhubarb pies should be baked about an hour, in a slow oven--it will not do to bake them quick.
Some cooks stew the rhubarb before making it into pies, but it is not so good as when used without stewing.
Rhubarb is apt to be over-valued as a "spring medicine" on account of its association with the Turkey rhubarb of materia medica.
Rhubarb is a wholesome and cooling spring vegetable, and may well take the place of cooked fruit when the latter is scarce.
She bore in her hand a rhubarb pie, nicely tied up in a copy of the Peonytown Clarion, which was intended as a gift for her Aunt Farnsworth.
While he was gone, Ann Harriet, who had forgotten all her troubles in the contemplation of riding home with her handsome cousin, laid the rhubarb pie on the opposite seat of the carriage, reserving the place by her side for Gregory.
Farther on stood the tall rhubarb plants with their leaves an autumnal yellow, and she thought of the day, only a little over two years before, when she had played there with Hulda and the Jahnke girls.
Behind the rhubarb plants; they have such large leaves, larger even than a fig leaf.
Why should the flour in Rhubarb Pie be mixed with sugar?
What is the purpose of egg and flour in Rhubarb Pie?
Slice the oranges and cut the rhubarb into pieces.
Rhubarb contains such a large percentage of moisture that it is well to use but one crust.
Bake until the rhubarb is tender and the crust is brown, i.
Rhubarb is not properly a fruit; it is a vegetable, but because it is used in the diet the same way as fruit, it is classed as such.
At one end of this channel he would insert a small joint of reed for his mouth-piece, while the other was filled with the rhubarb tobacco, which was then set on fire.
He had been suffering for the want of his "betel" for a long while, and the rhubarbtobacco had proved but a poor substitute.
This is a sweet soup, and is simply juice from stewed rhubarb sweetened and flavoured with lemon-peel and added either to cream or beaten-up yolks of eggs and a little white wine.
The red rhubarb should be cut into little pieces about two inches long.
When rhubarb is old and green it is best served more like a puree, or mashed.
It is no use attempting to colour old rhubarb red, but you can improve its colour by the addition of a very little spinach extract.
Very oldrhubarb is often stringy, and can with advantage be rubbed through a wire sieve.
The stewed rhubarb should be sent to table unbroken, and floating in a bright red juice.
When the bowels have been previously acted on, either by the rhubarb powders, or by the antimonial emetic, the chalk mixture is a never-failing remedy.
When the season is wet, make a bed for sowing the rhubarb seeds upon, about two feet thick, with new dung from the stable, covering it near one foot thick with good soil.
Rhubarb Stalks, or Persian Apple--Is the earliest ingredient for pies, which the spring offers.
An easier and simpler method of drying rhubarb is, after cutting the root into handsome pieces, to wrap up each separately, in one or more pieces of whitish-brown paper, and then to place them on the hob of a common Bath stove.
If this is attended to, your rhubarb will be solid when taken out of the ground; and your kitchen, if a warm one, will soon fit it for use.
Method of cultivating and curing Turkey Rhubarb from Seed.
If the Bowels are constipated, they should be kept regular by a Pill of Rhubarb of five grains every morning.
Or, boil the rhubarb a few moments, as for sauce, with or without sugar and put into jars while it is very hot just as other fruit is canned.
Take one quart of chopped rhubarb sweetened with three cups of sugar, fill the pudding dish with the rhubarb; roll out the remaining crust, cover the top of dish and bake one-half hour.
One cup ofrhubarb which has been peeled and chopped fine; add one cup of sugar and the grated rind of a lemon.
Apples and oranges may be put up with rhubarb allowing two apples or three oranges to a pint of cut up rhubarb.
A dose either of rhubarband magnesia, or of castor oil, are the best remedies, and are generally, in the way of medicine, all that is necessary.
Both stewed rhubarband stewed pears often act as mild and gentle aperients.
Do not check it, but allow it to have its course, and take a little rhubarbor magnesia.
In one method, which keeps the pieces whole, the sugar and water are brought to the boiling point before the rhubarb is added, while in the other, the rhubarb is cooked with water until it is soft and the sugar then added.
The red rhubarb makes a more attractive dish when it is cooked and served than the green, but it has no better flavor.
It is not necessary to remove the skin from young and tender rhubarb, but it is often an advantage to remove it from rhubarb that is old.
If the rhubarb is being canned for sauce, fill each jar with sirup No.
Add the rhubarb to the sirup and cook until it is tender enough to be pierced with a fork.
Put the rhubarb and strawberries into this sirup, and cook for at least 15 minutes.
If a somewhat different flavor is desired in a marmalade, rhubarb instead of lemons may be used with oranges, as shown in the accompanying recipe.
It should be remembered that the stems of rhubarb contain considerable water and so require very little liquid in their cooking.
Rhubarb is much used for pies and is frequently canned for sauce.
Then, too, a cheap material may be combined with a more expensive one to make a larger quantity of a moderately priced product, as, for instance, rhubarb and pineapple.
General Ward suggests you do a bit of rhubarb raiding.
Using the tactics of the Rhubarb Raiders he flew low over the tile roofs and the windmills.
The dining-room and the parlor were, like those at Eide, adorned with ivies and flowering plants; oleanders in the windows and potted carnations on the table.
The abdomen may also be well fomented, and a dose of Tincture of Rhubarb taken occasionally.
If the infant's bowels are not opened by the end of the first day it should have a little sugar, or molasses and water, given to it, and if this does not succeed about half a tea-spoonful of syrup of Rhubarb may be added.
As they assumed their natural sizes and the rhubarb leaves that had before towered above their heads now barely covered their feet, they looked around the garden and found that no person was visible save themselves.
When he emerged from the burrow he found himself but a short distance from the house, in the center of the vegetable garden, where the leaves of rhubarb waving above his head seemed like trees.
But he was evidently disinclined to be drawn into the argument; for when Harvey held the rhubarb pie, rather battle-worn now, beneath his nose, he sniffed contemptuously and turned scornfully away.
After the preliminary application was completed, he dragged Craig to where he had hidden the rhubarb tarts, still crestfallen from solitary confinement.
