Pennyroyal Tea

Ingredients

• Take a handful of pennyroyal herb
• boil in a quart of water

Method

1. 1

   Make a tea of pennyroyal herb and drink hot as a preventive when depressing symptoms set in.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PENNYROYAL TEA. drink for a fever patient. — The Boston Cook-Book : Mrs. D. A. Lincoln. Roberts Brothers , Pubs. (By per) Pennyroyal Tea. “The virtues of this old-fashioned remedy are vouched for in cholera years, by a correspondent, who says that the pennyroyal herb, made into a tea and drank hot, is the most comforting and active preventive that can be imagined when depressing symptoms set in.” Elder Tea. “ Make a strong tea of elder-flowers , either fresh or dried. Sweeten with honey. This tea is to be drunk as hot as possible, after the person is warm in bed ; it produces a strong perspiration, and a slight cold or cough yields to it immediately; but the more stub- born requires two or three repetitions. Used in Russia.” This is an excellent remedy for colds at- tended with feverish symptoms and sore throat. Slippery-Elm Tea. Pour one cup of boiling water upon one teaspoonfid of slippery-elm powder or a piece of the bark. When cool, strain, and flavor with lemon-juice and sugar. This is soothing in any inflammation of the mucous membrane. — Boston Cook-Book : Mrs. D. A. Lincoln. Roberts Brothers, Pubs. Flaxseed Lemonade. Pour one quart of boiling water over four tablespoon- fuls of whole flaxseed, and steep three hours. Strain CALAMUS CANDY. 233 and sweeten to taste, and add the juice of two lemons. Add a little more water if the liquid seems too thick. This is soothing in colds. — Boston Cook-Book : Mrs. D. A. Lincoln. Roberts Brothers , Pubs. (By per) Calamus Candy. “Two cupfuls of small pieces of sliced root, an eighth of an inch in thickness ; cover with cold water, and boil gradually ; then pour off the water, and add a cup and a half of pulverized white sugar, with water ; simmer long and slowly, stirring frequently ; pour out in buttered pans. In Turkey it is con- sidered preventive of contagion.” And he felt new life in his sinews shoot, As he drank the juice of the calamus-root; And now he treads the fatal shore, As fresh and vigorous as before. The Culprit Fay: Joseph Rodman Drake. Delightful Cough Candy. Break up a cupful of slippery-elm bark, and let it soak for an hour in water poured over it in the meas- uring-cup. Half fill a cup with flaxseed, and fill up to the brim with water, leaving it to soak the same time as the slippery-elm. When you are ready to make the candy, put one pound and a half of brown sugar in a stew-pan over the fire ; pour the water from the slippery-elm and flaxseed over it, straining the last, and stir constantly until it boils and begins to turn back to sugar ; then turn it out, and it will break up into crumbly, small pieces. For preachers or teachers who use their voices too much, it will be found an admirable and agreeable medicine, the 234 EXCELLENT COUGH MIXTURE. taste being peculiarly pleasant. It is highly recom- mended to any one subject to throat affections. The best flavor for it is a little lemon-juice. — Virginia Cookery-Book : Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith. Harper & Brothers , Pubs. (By peri) Excellent Cough Mixture. Take a handful of hoarhound, boil in a quart of water

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