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Sore Mouth in Nursing Babies

From Buckeye cookery, 1892

Serves 1

Simple borax water is equally good.

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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As published

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

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

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.