Sweany in Horses, to Cure
Ingredients
Directions
Melt tallow, beeswax, beef marrow, and sheep tallow together in a pot.
Add whiskey and coarse sea salt to the melted mixture.
Apply the mixture to the affected parts of the horse.
Bathe the area as hot as the horse can tolerate.
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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