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Balls for Thick-Winded Horses

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Balls for Thick-Winded Horses

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine Barbadoes tar, Venice turpentine, Castile soap, rust of iron, and prepared kali in a bowl.

  2. Add carraway seeds, elecampane, and ginger to the mixture.

  3. Grind the mixture to a fine powder.

  4. Bind the powder with treacle and liquorice powder to form balls.

  5. Administer the balls to thick-winded horses.

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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