Name: Tar Syrup for the Lungs
Ingredients: 1 cup tar; 2 pounds loaf sugar; 1 quart water

Tar Syrup for the Lungs

Ingredients

1 cup tar
2 pounds loaf sugar
1 quart water

Directions

Combine tar, loaf sugar, and water in a tin pan.
Boil for 2 hours.
Let cool, then pour off the syrup.
Take 1 tablespoonful every 2 hours, or every hour if lungs are sore; gradually reduce the dose as condition improves.

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.