Name: Admiral Gascoigne's Tincture of Rhubarb
Ingredients: ½ ounce powdered rhubarb; ½ ounce powdered myrrh; ½ ounce cochineal; ½ ounce hiera-picra; 1 quart double distilled aniseed water

Admiral Gascoigne's Tincture of Rhubarb

Ingredients

Directions

Combine the powdered rhubarb, myrrh, cochineal, and hiera-picra in a bottle.
Add the aniseed water and seal the bottle.
Let it stand for four days before using.
Take a small glass (⅓ cup) at a time for stomach or bowel pains.

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.