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Frost-bitten Feet

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Frost-bitten Feet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub the affected areas with the fat morning and evening over a warm fire.

  2. Wrap a piece of woolen cloth, greased with the fat, around the frost-bitten parts.

  3. Repeat this process for two to three days until pain subsides.

  4. Continue treatment for five to six days until fully healed.

  5. For better results, simmer the inner bark of elder or leaves of plantain in the fat before applying.

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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