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Bitters for Chronic Rheumatism

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Bitters for Chronic Rheumatism

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pulverize the prickly-ash berries, spikenard root, yellow poplar bark, and dog-wood bark.

  2. Combine all the pulverized ingredients in a gallon jug.

  3. Fill the jug with brandy.

  4. Take a wine glass of the mixture three times daily before 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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