A Special Restorative
From Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper, 1902
Useful for patients in the last stages of consumption or extreme exhaustion.
Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 111. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
A Special Restorative.— Put 6 fresh eggs, with clean shells, whole mto a jar, earthen or glass, with air-tight lid or screw- stopper. Fill up to the brim with fresh lemon-juice, or cover the eggs with the juice; leave for six or seven days till the shells are dissolvedhy the action of the citric acid in the lemon. Now take a steel fork and prick the inner white fleece cover- ing the egg ; stir all well together. Add to the eggs and lemon i pint of rum and \ lb. finest castor-sugar,
Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.