Show Colonial Dames Dame's Beauty Recipes There is really nothing like a Colonial dame HARSH THOUGH her life was wasand wasand wasand and endless her work work she work she still made roade the ti time me to care for her herlo lo looks ks How do we know Here are some beauty formulas from froma a recipe book written in 1756 by Eliza Lucas Pinckney who lived on a plantation outside Charleston Charles Charles- I ton S S. S C C. C I I For hand care Boll four eggs hard Take out the yolks and beat them Blanch Blancha a quarter Q of a pound of bitter almonds and beat the them m in brandy Put to the them thema m ma a half penny loaf grated as much honey as you like It will keep seven years jears together r. r AND HERES HERE'S a recipe alleged to make the hair grow Take rosemary maiden hair Southernwood Southernwood Southernwood South South- ernwood hasel bark of each 2 ounces Burn those to ashes on a clean hearth Put those ashes in white wine to make a strong lye I i I and wash the hair daily at the I root Keep it cut short This is I better than bears' bears oil or pomatum pomatum pomatum poma poma- tum Mrs 1 Pinckney promIses Her manuscript also included nostrums for the relief of l hiccough hiccough c- c cough and gout and recipes for raisin wine and gooseberry vinegar |