To Make the Ladys Easy
Item
- Title
- To Make the Ladys Easy
- Creator
- Mrs. Carlson
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A medicinal drink to treat an unknown ailment [possibly menstrual or childbirth issues?] using mustard seed, treacle (molasses), and beer, taken for nine mornings.
- Transcript
- one spounefull of fine mosterseed and a Spounefull of Treackle & half a pinte of Strong beare mix it all to gether and take [struck: a spoune full of] it for Nine Mornings to gether. Ths Mrs Carlton
- Subject
- See all items with this valuebeers
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- Contributor
- Ochsner, Elizabeth
- Le, Vincent
- Grimm, Stephanie
- 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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