Bread Poultice
Ingredients
Directions
Scald a basin with boiling water.
Add coarsely crumbed bread to the basin.
Drain off excess water after the bread has soaked up enough.
Spread the remaining light pulp on folded linen, about a third of an inch thick.
Apply it when at the temperature of a warm bath.
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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