sin, and three quarters of mutton suet, melted together. This
forms a proper plaster for blisters, and in other cases where a gentle
digestive is necessary.

WEAK EYES. Dimness of sight, arising from weakness or inflammation, is
best relieved by frequent washing of the eyes with cold water. If this
do not succeed, the following solution may be applied. Dissolve four
grains each of the sugar of lead and crude sal-ammoniac, in eight ounces
of water, to which a few drops of laudanum may occasionally be added,
and bathe the eyes with it night and morning. A tea-spoonful of brandy
in a cup of water will also make good eye-water, or a little simple rose
water may supply the place.

WEDDING CAKE. Take two pounds of butter, beat it to a cream with the
hand, and put in two pounds of fine sugar sifted. Mix well together two
pounds of fine dried flour, half a pound of almonds blanched and pounded
with orange-flower water, and an ounce of beaten mace. Beat up sixteen
eggs, leaving out three whites, and put to them half a glass of sack,
and the same of brandy. Put a handful of the flour and almonds to the
sugar and butter, then a spoonful of the eggs, and so on till they are
all mixed together. Beat it an hour with the hand, add two pounds of
currants, half a pound of citron, half a pound of orange peel, and two
spoonfuls of orange-flower water. Butter the tin, and bake it three
hours and a half. An iceing should be put over the cake after it is
baked.

WEEDS. Weeds are in their most succulent state in the month of June,
and there is scarcely a hedge border but might be rendered useful by
mowing them at this season, but which afterwards would become a
nuisance. After the weeds have lain a few hours to wither, hungry cattle
will eat them with great freedom, and it would display the appearance of
good management to embrace the transient opportunity.

WELCH ALE. To brew very fine Welch ale, pour forty-two gallons of hot
but not boiling water, on eight bushels of malt; cover it up, and let it
stand three hours. Mean while infuse four pounds of hops in a little hot
water, and put the water and hops into a tub; run the wort upon them,
and boil them together three hours. Strain off the hops, and reserve
them for the small beer. Let the wort stand in a high tub till cool
enough to receive the yeast, of which put in two quarts of the best
quality: mix it thoroughly and often. When the wort has done working,
the second or third da