Name: Frost-bitten Feet
Ingredients: fat of a dung-hill fowl; woolen cloth; inner bark of elder (optional); leaves of plantain (optional)

Frost-bitten Feet

Ingredients

fat of a dung-hill fowl
woolen cloth
inner bark of elder (optional)
leaves of plantain (optional)

Directions

Rub the affected areas with the fat morning and evening over a warm fire.
Wrap a piece of woolen cloth, greased with the fat, around the frost-bitten parts.
Repeat this process for two to three days until pain subsides.
Continue treatment for five to six days for complete healing.

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.