Strengthening Cordial

Ingredients

• Five new-laid eggs
• 5 lemons
• lb. sugar candy
• 1 pint good old rum

Method

1. 1

   Lay the eggs, shells and all, in a pie-dish, alongside of each other; cover them with the juice of the lemons, leave them in this for four or five days, turning them over every day.

2. 2

   At the end of the five days the shells will be quite dissolved.

3. 3

   Beat all up well with the sugar candy, add the rum, and bottle for use.

4. 4

   A teaspoonful should be given every morning, fasting.

5. 5

   The mixture will keep for some time.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Cameron's cookery book (1898) by Ida Cameron, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Strengthening Cordial. Five new-laid eggs, 5 lemons, \ lb. sugar candy, 1 pint good old rum

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