Name: Admiral Gascoigne's Tincture of Rhubarb
Ingredients: ½ ounce powdered rhubarb; ½ ounce myrrh; ½ ounce cochineal; ½ ounce hiera-picra; 1 quart double-distilled anniseed water

Admiral Gascoigne's Tincture of Rhubarb

Ingredients

Directions

Combine the powdered rhubarb, myrrh, cochineal, and hiera-picra in a bottle.
Add the double-distilled anniseed water.
Let the mixture stand for four days.
Take a small glass (⅓ cup) at a time for any stomach or bowel pains.

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.