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A Cold

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Take 1 teaspoon of syrup of violets several times a day.

  2. If you have a cough, mix equal parts of syrup of squills and syrup of marshmallows and take 1 teaspoon several times a day.

  3. Stir 1 tablespoon of treacle into 1 pint of cold water and drink while lying down in bed.

  4. Alternatively, use 1 tablespoon of oatmeal instead of treacle if preferred.

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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