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    How to Say it With Flowers, 1881

    A bouquet of flowers and leaves may be selected and arranged so as to express much depth of feeling…

    How to Cure Head Congestion, 1596

    A Medicine for the stopping of the nose and head, which commeth by reason of colde…

    How to Make a Snow Pig, 1882

    Snow Statuary. The statuary may be of various kinds. It is very seldom that pigs are sculptured in marble…

    How to Keep Your Hands Warm, 1579

    Whosoever annoynts his feete or hands, with the grease of a Woolfe…

    How (Not) to Celebrate the New Year, c. 700

    If anyone does what many do on the first day of January, that is to say, goes around in the costume of a stag…

    How to Tell Your Fortune for the New Year, 1862

    The evening which of all others is the most adapted for witchery, is New Year’s eve…

    How to Make a Christmas Pie, 1784

    To make a Yorkshire Christmas-Pie. First make a good standing crust, let the wall and bottom be very thick…

    How to Make Fake Bacon, 1687

    To make Frayse appear like Rashers of Bacon. Take of fine Flowre half a peck…

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