to make Stoutens drops – Mrs Bridget · Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book

to make Stoutens drops – Mrs Bridget

Title: to make Stoutens drops – Mrs Bridget
Creator: Mrs. Bridget
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for liquid to be taken as drops, made from Seville oranges and a mixture of medicinal plants infused in brandy.
Transcript: Take the pill of 3 Sivell oranges 3 quarters of an ounce of jentian sliced & 2 peny worth of Seuchaneall & a quarter of an ounce of virgina Snake Root put these Ingrediants in to a pinte of brandy Let it Enfuse a week then take out a quarter of a pinte & put in another pint of Brandy by degrees still takeing out from the Ingredients as you put in fresh brandy & take fivety or Sixty drops in ale wine or Tea
Subject: See all items with this value brandy; See all items with this value Seville orange; See all items with this value gentian (Gentiana); See all items with this value Virginia snakeroot (Endodeca serpentaria); See all items with this value cochineal (carmine)
Contributor: Abu-Bader, Nagham; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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