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Felon Ointment

From The housekeeper's companion, 1883

Useful for treating felons.

Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 289. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Felon Ointment. — Take sweet oil, 1-2 pint, and stew a three-cent plug of tobacco in it until the tobacco is crisped; then squeeze it out and add red lead, i ounce

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