Name: Beef Juice for Infants
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon freshly-pressed beef juice; a small pinch of pepsin; 1 teaspoon gum-arabic water

Beef Juice for Infants

Ingredients

1 teaspoon freshly-pressed beef juice
a small pinch of pepsin
1 teaspoon gum-arabic water

Directions

Mix the beef juice with the pinch of pepsin.
Dilute the mixture with the gum-arabic water.
Administer every two to three hours until the doctor arrives.

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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Beef Juice for Infants