[Hathorn's] Tincture

Title: [Hathorn's] Tincture
Date: en 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for making a medicinal tincture using crushed tree bark mixed with orange peel, snakeroot (a non-specific plant genus), saffron, and cochineal and steeped in brandy.
Transcript: [top left margin: fo the 53] Take 3 Oz of Bark crushed not powdered 2 Oz Yellow rind of Seville Orange dried 2 Dracms Snakeroot 4 [1]/2 dracms saffron 1 dram [strikeout] Cochineal powdered - Infuse the above in one Quart of Brandy for five or six Days shaking the bottle now on then - strain the Tincture off for use
Subject: See all items with this value bark; See all items with this value oranges; See all items with this value medicinal plants; See all items with this value saffron; See all items with this value brandy; See all items with this value carmine (cochineal)
Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Grimm, Stephanie; Le, Vincent; en Bakir, Mehtap
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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