Name: Strong Beer Poultice
Ingredients: ½ pint ale or strong beer; oatmeal or linseed meal

Strong Beer Poultice

Ingredients

½ pint ale or strong beer
oatmeal or linseed meal

Directions

Stir oatmeal or linseed meal into the ale or strong beer until it reaches a proper thickness for a poultice.
Apply the poultice warm to the affected area.
Renew the poultice every six hours.

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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Strong Beer Poultice