The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Pare, core, and beat the apple until soft.
Mix the apple with salad oil to form a poultice.
Bind the poultice on the burn, replacing it with fresh as it dries.
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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