For a Consumption
Item
- Title
- For a Consumption
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A remedy to treat consumption by boiling wheat meal and mixing the reduction with red wine.
- Transcript
- One handfull of Wheat Meal, tyed in a Bag, two Quarts of Water boild till it is reduced to a Quart, let it stand twenty four hours, scrape as much of of it as will fill a Thimble, mix it in a Glass of red Wine.
- Subject
- See all items with this valuewheat
- See all items with this valueflour
- See all items with this valuewater
- See all items with this valuered wines
- See all items with this valueboiling (cooking)
- See all items with this valueremedies (health)
- See all items with this valueillness
- Contributor
- Cheston, Jarissa
- Le, Vincent
- Grimm, Stephanie
- 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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