RECIPES
bucket (about four gallons) of water and use it as the cleaning
solution:
Wash water Rinse water
1/3 cup borax ¼ cup grain alcohol
2 tsp. boric acid
¼ cup white distilled vinegar or
4 tsp. citric acid
1 bottle povidone iodine (optional)
Borax does the cleaning; alcohol disinfects, boric acid
leaves a pesticide residue, and the vinegar or citric acid give
luster. Povidone iodine kills parasite eggs. If you are just mak-
ing one pass on your carpet, use the borax, alcohol, boric acid,
and iodine. Remember to test everything you use on an unno-
ticed piece of carpet first.
Health Improvement Recipes
Black Walnut Hull Tincture
This new recipe is four times as strong as the previous one,
so it is called Black Walnut Hull Tincture Extra Strength.Your largest enamel or ceramic (not stainless steel, not aluminum)
cooking pot, preferably at least 10 quarts
Black walnuts, in the hull, each one still at least 50% green, enough
to fill the pot to the top
Grain alcohol, about 50% strength, enough to cover the walnuts
Vitamin C powder, 1 tsp. plus 1 tsp. per quart of tincture
Plastic wrap or cellophane
Glass jars or bottles
The black walnut tree produces large green balls in fall. The
walnut is inside, but we will use the whole ball, uncracked,
since the active ingredient is in the green outer hull.