Name: Tonic Balls for Horses
Ingredients: 2 oz. of Peruvian bark; 2 oz. of camomile; 4 oz. of gentian; 1 teaspoon of sulphate of copper; 10 drops of aniseed; honey

Tonic Balls for Horses

Ingredients

Directions

Divide the Peruvian bark, camomile, gentian, and sulphate of copper into 4 parts.
Add 10 drops of aniseed to each part.
Mix each part into a ball with honey.
Give one ball once a week for four successive weeks.

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.