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Cucumber Ointment

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cucumber Ointment

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the soap in fine shreds in 3 ounces of hot distilled water over a water bath.

  2. Liquefy the ointment and mix it with the soap solution in a mortar.

  3. Gradually add the remaining water while stirring constantly.

  4. Introduce the Jockey Club essence before the mixture cools.

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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