Name: Syrup of Comfrey
Ingredients: 6 ounces Comfrey Root; 3 ounces Plantain leaves; Equal quantity of loaf sugar

Syrup of Comfrey

Ingredients

6 ounces Comfrey Root
3 ounces Plantain leaves
Equal quantity of loaf sugar

Directions

Bruise the Comfrey root and Plantain leaves together in a marble mortar to express the juice.
Strain the liquid and mix it with an equal amount of loaf sugar.
Store the syrup and take 2 tablespoons as needed.

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.