Cough Syrup for the Lungs
Ingredients
Directions
Combine tar, loaf sugar, and water in a tin can.
Heat until the sugar melts, then boil for 2 hours.
Allow the mixture to cool, then pour off the liquid without shaking the can.
Transfer the liquid into a bottle.
Take in teaspoonful doses, especially when cough is troublesome.
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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