Linseed and Mustard Poultice
Ingredients
Directions
Heat a basin and pour in the boiling water.
Add linseed meal gradually to form a paste, adjusting with more meal or water as needed.
Sprinkle mustard over the surface.
Apply as you would a linseed poultice.
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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