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A Good Tonic

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine chloric ether, gentian tincture, volatile salt, and iodide of potassium in a bowl.

  2. Add the cooled water and mix well.

  3. Take 1 tablespoon three times a day, or double the dose if necessary.

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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