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Salve

From The universal cookery book, 1887

Good for all kinds of sores and wounds.

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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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Salve. Four ounces of mutton-tallow, two of beeswax, one of rosin, and one-half ounce of gum camphor. Simmer well together ; take off the fire, and then add one gill of alcohol

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