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Balls for Thick-Winded Horses

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Balls for Thick-Winded Horses

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine Barbadoes tar, Venice turpentine, Castile soap, Must of iron, and Prepared kali in a bowl.

  2. Grind carraway seeds, elecampane, and ginger into a fine powder.

  3. Mix the powdered ingredients with the tar mixture.

  4. Add treacle and liquorice powder to bind the mixture into a ball.

  5. Form into balls and administer to the horse.

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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