Name: Lock Jaw
Ingredients: a teaspoon of flour mixed in a tumbler of water

Lock Jaw

Ingredients

a teaspoon of flour mixed in a tumbler of water

Directions

Apply a poultice of scraped beet.
A teaspoon of flour mixed in a tumbler of water and taken at intervals of the day will cure diarrhea.

By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.