Name: Colt's-poot Diet Drink
Ingredients: ½ ounce Colt's-foot roots; 1 pint water; 2 pinches Colt's-foot flower; optional: wine

Colt's-poot Diet Drink

Ingredients

½ ounce Colt's-foot roots
1 pint water
2 pinches Colt's-foot flower
optional: wine

Directions

Boil the Colt's-foot roots in water for a few minutes.
Remove from heat and add the Colt's-foot flower.
Stir well and take at regular intervals.
For dinner, mix with wine instead of water if desired.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Colt's-poot Diet Drink