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Prevent a Child Coughing at Night

From Buckeye cookery, 1892

Serves 8

Presented as published in 1892. 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 Buckeye cookery (1892), page 306. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PREVENT A CHILD COUGHING AT NIGHT, boil the strength out of ten cents worth of ‘‘seneca snake-root”’ in one quart of soft water; strain through a cloth, boil down to a pint, add one cup powdered sugar made into a thick molasses. Give one tea-spoonful

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