Name: Syrup for Coughs, Spilling of Blood, &C.
Ingredients: 6 ounces comfrey roots; 12 handfuls plantain leaves; equal weight of sugar

Syrup for Coughs, Spilling of Blood, &C.

Ingredients

6 ounces comfrey roots
12 handfuls plantain leaves
equal weight of sugar

Directions

Cut and beat the comfrey roots and plantain leaves well.
Strain out the juice.
Boil the juice with an equal weight of sugar to make a syrup.

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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Syrup for Coughs, Spilling of Blood, &C.