Linseed Syrup for Coughs
Ingredients
Directions
Boil linseed in water for 1 hour.
Strain the mixture.
Add lemon juice and rock candy to the strained liquid.
Stir until the rock candy is dissolved.
Take a wineglass full when cough is troublesome.
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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