To Make the Poultis [poultice] for it

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Title: To Make the Poultis [poultice] for it
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Recipe for making a poultice using lard, white wine, wheat flour, and egg whites. Heated in a skillet and reduced to a paste, then applied. This entry likely refers to the one immediately preceding, "Mrs Lister's Purging Drink for the Kings Evell".
Transcript: Take a pece of Boars grease the big nes of a Walnut melt it over the fire in a Clean Scellet thn put in a pint of white wine - as much wheat flour as will thicken it keep it Stiring as thick as a paste then put in the whites of too Eggs well beaten & the Same quantity of Boars Grease as be fore stir it Continuelly & keep stirring it adding Boars Greas till it Come clear from the bottom of the Scellet -- & is like a paste Lay it very warm upon the fire in the manour of a poultice not too thick, this quantity will do 4 or [struck: 4] 5 times warm it Every time with a fresh pece of Boars Greas aply theas poultice Every twelve hours or at least once a day -- it will boath draw & heall & do the Cure by Gods Blessing provided nothing Elce be used with it
Subject: See all items with this value lard; See all items with this value wines; See all items with this value flour; See all items with this value eggs; See all items with this value poultices; See all items with this value King's Evil (scrofula); See all items with this value remedies (health)
Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth; Stevens, Jen; Grimm, Stephanie; 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.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine

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