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A Drink for the Windy Colic

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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A Drink for the Windy Colic

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the spirit of turpentine and dulcified spirits of nitre in a mixing container.

  2. Add the oil of juniper and tincture of opium to the mixture.

  3. Stir well to combine all ingredients thoroughly.

  4. Administer the drink as needed for relief from colic symptoms.

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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