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For a Cough

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the honey or black currant jam with elecampane powder, liquorice powder, and sulphur.

  2. Take 1 teaspoon of this mixture at any time when the cough is troublesome.

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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