Onion Poultice
Ingredients
Directions
Simmer a little salad oil over the fire.
Shave fine white wax into the oil until it forms a smooth ointment.
Ensure the ointment is just stiff enough to spread on linen.
Apply the ointment as a plaster.
Use on areas with blisters or excoriations.
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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