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Syrup for Cough and Spitting Blood

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Syrup for Cough and Spitting Blood

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut up and beat the comfrey roots and plantain leaves well.

  2. Strain out the juice from the mixture.

  3. Add the same weight of sugar to the juice.

  4. Boil the mixture until it reaches a syrup consistency.

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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