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Poke, Pigeon-berry, Garget Root

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Poke, Pigeon-berry, Garget Root

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather ripe poke berries and express the juice.

  2. Mix equal parts of the expressed juice and a strong decoction of rattle weed root.

  3. Add enough brandy to preserve the mixture.

  4. Take small doses, from 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon, three to four times a day.

  5. For an ointment, strain a decoction of the roots and mix with lard.

  6. Simmer the mixture over low heat until the watery parts evaporate.

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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