Calf’s Lights Broth for Invalids

Ingredients

• lights (lungs) of a freshly-killed Calf
• 6 breakfast-cupfuls of water
• six dates
• four large figs
• oz. of raisins
• six jujubes
• oz. each of the following medicinal herbs: maidenhair fern
• ceterach
• polytrichum
• scolopendrium
• polypody

Method

1. 1

   Well wash the lights of a freshly-killed Calf; cut them in large pieces, put them into a saucepan with water, and cook until reduced to one-third the original quantity.

2. 2

   Now add dates, figs, raisins, and jujubes, and boil for ten minutes longer.

3. 3

   Remove the pan from the fire, add the medicinal herbs, let these infuse for about ten minutes, with the pan covered; pass the liquor through a fine cloth, and it is ready for use.

4. 4

   Taken warm, a little in the morning and evening, this broth is considered to be a capital drink for diseases of the chest.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 89. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lights (lungs) of a freshly-killed Calf ; cut them in largo pieces, put them into a saucepan with 6 breakfast-cupfuls of water, and cook until reduced to one-third the original quantity. Now add six dates, four large figs, |oz. of raisins, and six jujubes, and boil for ten minutes longer. Remove the pan from the fire, put (in £oz. each of the following medicinal herbs : maidenhair fern, ceterach, polytrichum, scolopendrium, and polypody

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