Name: Gum-arabic Water
Ingredients: 1 drachm (approximately 1 teaspoon) gum arabic; ½ cup water; lime-water (if needed)

Gum-arabic Water

Ingredients

1 drachm (approximately 1 teaspoon) gum arabic
½ cup water
lime-water (if needed)

Directions

Dissolve 1 teaspoon of gum arabic in ½ cup of water.
Mix ¼ teaspoon of the solution into milk at each meal.
Add an equal part of water when giving as a drink.
If the milk is acidic (turns litmus paper red), add a few teaspoonfuls of lime-water.

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.