Grandmother’s Family Spring Bitters
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 8
This is a herbal remedy.
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 341. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
GRANDMOTHER’S FAMILY SPRING BITTERS. Mandrake root one ounce, dandelion root one ounce, burdock root one ounce, yellow dock root one ounce, prickly ash berries two ounces, marsh mallow one ounce, turkey rhubarb half an ounce, gentian one ounce, English camomile flowers one ounce, red clover tops two ounces. HEAL TH-S UGGESTIOHS. 513. Wash the herbs and roots ; put them into an earthen vessel, pour over two quarts of water that has been boiled and cooled
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