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Fever Drink

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Fever Drink

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the brewer's barm and lukewarm water in a bowl.

  2. Sweeten with Demerara sugar.

  3. Let it stand in a warm place until it ferments.

  4. Set aside until cold and remove the froth.

  5. Serve the drink to the patient four or five times a day.

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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