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Bourget's Iron Chlorid Gelatin

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Bourget's Iron Chlorid Gelatin

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve gelatin in glycerin and water over moderate heat.

  2. Once liquefied, quickly add tincture of chlorid of iron.

  3. Stir until homogeneous and heat gradually.

  4. Allow to cool on metal plates divided into small squares.

  5. Take two or three tablets several hours after meals.

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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