Roast Onions for Croup

Ingredients

• Roast onions in ashes until done
• laid upon a folded napkin
• goose-oil, sweet-oil, or even lard

Method

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   Mash roasted onions and lay them on a folded napkin, pour on goose-oil or sweet-oil, and apply warm to the throat and upper part of the chest.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 306. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Roast onions in ashes until done, wrap in a strong cloth, and squeeze out juice. To three parts juice, add one part laudanum and one part sweet-oil, and bottle for use. Wash ear out with warm: water, shake bottle well, and drop a few drops into the ear. For SORE MOUTH IN NURSING BABIES, take a tea-spoon each of pulverized alum and borax, half a salt-spoon of pulverized nut-galls, a table-spoon of honey; mix, and pour on it half a tea-cup boiling water; let settle, and ’ with a clean linen rag wash the mouth four or five times a day, using a fresh piece of linen every day; or simple borax water is equally good. Half | an ce tea-spoon powdered borax in two table-spoons soft water is strong enough. A LUMP OF sUGAR, saturated with vinegar, will stop hiccough when drink- ing water will not. For babies, a few grains of sugar will often suffice. Care must be taken in giving sugar to nursing babies, as it is constipating. Dio Lewis says feather pillows are death to children. Make them of straw or hair, and not too large. To CURE THE EARACHE, take a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip it in sweet-oil, and insert it — into the ear. Put a flannel bandage over the head to keep it’ warm. PROBABLY NINE CHILDREN OUT OF TEN who die of croup might be saved by the timely application of roast onions, mashed, laid upon a folded napkin, and goose-oil, sweet-oil, or even lard

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