UMMERY. Put three large handfuls of fine oatmeal into two
quarts of spring water, and let it steep a day and a night. Pour off the
clear water, put in the same quantity of fresh water, and strain the
oatmeal through a fine sieve. Boil it till it is as thick as hasty
pudding, keep it stirring all the time, that it may be smooth and fine.
When first strained, a spoonful of sugar should be added, two spoonfuls
of orange flower-water, two or three spoonfuls of cream, a blade of
mace, and a bit of lemon peel. When boiled enough, pour the flummery
into a shallow dish, and serve it up.

OATMEAL PUDDING. Pour a quart of boiling milk over a pint of the best
oatmeal, and let it soak all night. Next day beat two eggs, and mix a
little salt. Butter a bason that will just hold it, cover it tight with
a floured cloth, and boil it an hour and a half. Eat it with cold butter
and salt. When cold, slice and toast it, and eat it as oat-cake,
buttered.

OLD WRITINGS. When old deeds or writings are so much defaced that they
can scarcely be deciphered, bruise and boil a few nut galls in white
wine; or if it be a cold infusion, expose it to the sun for two or three
days. Then dip a sponge into the infusion, pass it over the writing that
is sunk, and it will instantly be revived, if the infusion be strong
enough of the galls. Vitriolic or nitrous acid a little diluted with
water, will also render the writing legible; but care must be taken that
the solution be not too strong, or it will destroy the paper or the
parchment which contains the writing.

OINTMENTS. An excellent ointment for burns, scalds, chilblains, and
dressing blisters, may be made in the following manner. Take eight
ounces of hog's lard quite fresh, one ounce of bees' wax, and one of
honey. Put them into a kettle over the fire, and stir it together till
it is all melted. Pour it into a jar for keeping, add a large spoonful
of rose water, and keep stirring it till it is cold.--Bad scalds and
burns should first have a poultice of grated potatoes applied to them
for several hours, and then a plaster of the ointment, which must be
renewed morning and evening.--For blisters, a plaster of this should be
spread rather longer than the blister, and put on over the blister
plaster when it has been on twenty-four hours, or sooner if it feel
uneasy. By this means the blister plaster will slip off when it has done
drawing, without any pain or trouble.--For chilblains, it has never b