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Wild Yam

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Wild Yam

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 2 ounces of wild yam root in 1 pint of boiling water slowly for 30 minutes.

  2. Take ½ to 1 teacupful every half hour for bilious colic.

  3. For chronic malaria, mix 1 teaspoon of Fowler's solution, ½ ounce of tincture of wild yam, and 2½ ounces of compound tincture of cardamon.

  4. Take 1 teaspoon of the mixture in water 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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