Name: Colic, or Bots, in Horses— to Cure
Ingredients: 12 good-sized red peppers; 1 quart water; 1 pint carrier's oil

Colic, or Bots, in Horses— to Cure

Ingredients

12 good-sized red peppers
1 quart water
1 pint carrier's oil

Directions

Steep the red peppers in water until well infused.
Strain the mixture and give it to the horse while warm.
After one hour, administer 1 pint of carrier's oil.

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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Colic, or Bots, in Horses— to Cure