A Drink for a Cow That Appears Lame in the Joints
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the gum guaiacum powder in a glass of brandy overnight.
Add the iEthiop's mineral and gentian to the soaked mixture.
Mix well and give it to the cow in the morning, diluted in a quart of good old ale.
Repeat every third day as necessary.
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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