A Famous salve for a sor Breast recommended by Lady Howe.
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Title
A Famous salve for a sor Breast recommended by Lady Howe.
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[inserted top left margin: fo the 52 April 16th 1774]
Take one pound of mutton Suet; half a Pound of White Mosin and half a Pint of salad oil: First cut the Suet very fine & set it over the fire to g[text loss] as much out of it as you can, then clean it off and put it into an earthen Pipkin and put in the oil & Mosin which must be beat very fine Boil it 'till the scum falls & it begins to smoke; then pour it into a clean cold Pipkin and when it is a little cooled beat it up 'till quite cold & white. Wen it is to be used melt some in an earthen Pipkin over the Fire & have ready a pice of fine old Cloth the size of the whole Breast & dip into it & put it on as hot as it can be borne Twice a day Let one piece be quite rady to put on before the other is taken off that the cold may not get to the sore
Take one pound of mutton Suet; half a Pound of White Mosin and half a Pint of salad oil: First cut the Suet very fine & set it over the fire to g[text loss] as much out of it as you can, then clean it off and put it into an earthen Pipkin and put in the oil & Mosin which must be beat very fine Boil it 'till the scum falls & it begins to smoke; then pour it into a clean cold Pipkin and when it is a little cooled beat it up 'till quite cold & white. Wen it is to be used melt some in an earthen Pipkin over the Fire & have ready a pice of fine old Cloth the size of the whole Breast & dip into it & put it on as hot as it can be borne Twice a day Let one piece be quite rady to put on before the other is taken off that the cold may not get to the sore
Subject
Mutton suet See all items with this value
Salad oil See all items with this value
Contributor
Caylor, Karmen
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.