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A Clyster

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the Glauber's salts and treacle in the mutton broth.

  2. Add the sweet oil to the mixture.

  3. Before administering, dip a small hand in the mixture and rub it on the area to help remove hardened waste.

  4. Use a pipe that is 10 to 12 inches long with a strong bladder attached to one end to administer the clyster.

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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