Name: Sulphur and Molasses
Ingredients: 5 cents' worth of sulphur; molasses (enough to make a custard-like consistency)

Sulphur and Molasses

Ingredients

5 cents' worth of sulphur
molasses (enough to make a custard-like consistency)

Directions

Mix sulphur with molasses until it reaches the consistency of custard.
Take 1 teaspoon of the mixture every morning for three days.
Then stop for three days before repeating.

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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Sulphur and Molasses