Name: Poultice Made of Hops
Ingredients: 1 handful of hops; 1 pint of water; 2 tablespoons of Indian meal; 1 tablespoon of lard

Poultice Made of Hops

Ingredients

1 handful of hops
1 pint of water
2 tablespoons of Indian meal
1 tablespoon of lard

Directions

Boil the hops in water for a few minutes in a covered pot.
Squeeze out the juice and strain it.
Return the liquid to the heat and thicken it with Indian meal.
Add lard as it cools.

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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Poultice Made of Hops