ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: SOLPADEINE

I SHALL never forget the first meal I cooked by myself after my marriage. I had never cooked an entire meal before and I didn’t know one joint from another or one measure from another. I was a greenhorn when it came to cooking and baking. Now I am considered to be the best pastry-maker…

Silver beet is grown not for the roots but for the sterns and leaves. The celery-like stalks and the very broad midribs, silvery white in colour, are cooked as sea kale. The rest of the leaf is used as spinach. As a two-uses crop it deserves any space given to it. Ready for Use. During…

Those doctors who practise enzyme-potentiated desensitization would probably be surprised at my putting this treatment into a section on alternative therapies. I do so simply because at the time of writing this is not a well-established therapy, even though the first treatments were carried out at St Mary’s Hospital Allergy Clinic in Oxford, UK, in…

The top colours alluded to in both Marbling and Graniting, should be mixed in turpentine, with a little japanncr’s gold-size to bind; otherwise the colours may flake off in varnishing. Black and Gold Marble. The ground is black. Mix a little white, red and yellow separately, on a board, and with a camel-hair brush give…

The mulberry has the distinction of being a thoroughly satisfactory town fruit tree; it will produce good crops of mulberries where other trees fail on account of smoky conditions. In bleak districts in open country it needs shelter, to break the blast; a sunny position is to its liking. The fruit is excellent for dessert…

Haemorrhoids that are caused by a weakness of blood vessels in and around the anus are relatively easy to treat. Make your diet rich in fresh fruit and vegetables (for their flavonoid content) and drink lots of water to soften stool. You should also eat a lot of fibre to keep your stool soft. Obtain…