For a Consumption

Title: For a Consumption
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A remedy to treat consumption by boiling wheat meal and mixing the reduction with red wine.
Transcript: One handfull of Wheat Meal, tyed in a Bag, two Quarts of Water boild till it is reduced to a Quart, let it stand twenty four hours, scrape as much of of it as will fill a Thimble, mix it in a Glass of red Wine.
Subject: See all items with this value wheat; See all items with this value flour; See all items with this value water; See all items with this value red wine; See all items with this value boiling (cooking); See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value illness
Contributor: Cheston, Jarissa; Le, Vincent; Grimm, Stephanie; Bakir, Mehtap
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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