Name: Salve for Cuts and Burns
Ingredients: one half pound of sweet lard; one fourth pound of beeswax

Salve for Cuts and Burns

Ingredients

one half pound of sweet lard
one fourth pound of beeswax

Directions

To one half pound of sweet lard, add one fourth pound of beeswax and the same of resin; heat all together till well mixed, pour in a little tin box. Apply to the wound a little on a soft cotton clo,th. — Mrs. Ford.
The common May weed blossoms put in alcohol are much superior to arnica for the same uses.
The white of an egg and salt mixed to a thick paste is one of the best remedies for sprains or bruises or lameness for man or beast. Rub well the parts affected.

By Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio). 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.