put some hay into the copper with
it. You may keep the pickle as long as you please by often boiling it
up.

WET CLOTHES. When a person has the misfortune to get wet, care should
be taken not to get too near the fire, or into a warm room, so as to
occasion a sudden heat. The safest way is to keep in constant motion,
until some dry clothes can be procured, and to exchange them as soon as
possible.

WHEAT BREAD. To make it in the most economical way, the coarsest of the
bran only is to be taken from the flour, and the second coat, or what is
called pollard, is to be left in the meal. Five pounds of the bran are
to be boiled in somewhat more than four gallons of water, in order that,
when perfectly smooth, three gallons and three quarts of clear bran
water may be poured into and kneaded up with forty-six pounds of the
meal; adding salt as well as yeast, in the same way as for other bread.
When the dough is ready to bake, the loaves are to be made up, and baked
two hours and a half in a tolerably hot oven. As flour when thus made up
will imbibe three quarts more of this bran liquor than of common water,
it evidently produces not only a more nutricious and substantial food,
but increases one fifth above the usual quantity; consequently it makes
a saving of at least one day's consumption in every week. If this meal
bread were in general use, it would be a saving to the nation of nearly
ten millions a year. Besides, this bread has the following peculiar
property: if put into the oven and baked for twenty minutes, after it is
ten days old, it will appear again like new bread.

WHEAT EARS. To roast wheat ears and ortolans, they should be spitted
sideways, with a vine leaf between each. Baste them with butter, and
strew them with bread crumbs while roasting. Ten or twelve minutes will
do them. Serve them up with fried bread crumbs in the dish, and gravy in
a tureen.

WHEY. Cheese whey is a very wholesome drink for weakly persons,
especially when the cows are in fresh pasture. Tending to quench thirst,
and to promote sleep, it is well adapted to feverish constitutions. It
is the most relaxing and diluting of all drinks, dissolving and carrying
off the salts, and is a powerful remedy in the hot scurvy.

WHEY BUTTER. The whey is first set in mugs, to acquire a sufficient
degree of consistence and sourness for churning, either by the warmth of
the season, or by a fire, as in the making of milk butter. Sometimes the
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