Onion Poultice
Ingredients
Directions
Boil cornmeal in water until a soft mush forms.
Finely chop the raw onions.
Stir the onions and their juice into the hot mush and heat through.
Spread the mixture onto a cloth and apply to the feet and limbs.
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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