Name: Ointment of Marshmallows
Ingredients: 2 ounces marshmallow ointment; 2 egg yolks; ½ ounce oil of turpentine; 1 ounce balsam of capiva; 1 pint warm ale

Ointment of Marshmallows

Ingredients

Directions

Incorporate the marshmallow ointment with the egg yolks.
Add the oil of turpentine and balsam of capiva.
Mix all ingredients in a pint of warm ale.
Administer the mixture on an empty stomach.

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.