Greene [strikeout] ointment

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Title: Greene [strikeout] ointment
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for ointment made from red sage, rosemary, bay leaves, rue, sheep suet, and olive oil. The ingredients are mixed together, and buried in a pot for several days prior to being heated and strained.
Transcript: Red saige rose Mary of Each a pound, & half a pound of the youngest Bay leves Rue half a pound pick them [text loss] not wash them. chop all these to gether then take 4 pd of sheps suet hot from the shepe. beat it & the hearbs to gether till it be of one Couler in a Morter or Bowl then put all these in to a clean Bowl with a bottele of the best oyle of olive work it to gether till all be a like then put it in an Earthen pot stoped Close & coverd with paste & cover it eight dayes in a Dunghill then take it oute & seeth it in a pan over a soft fire till it be half boyled thn put in to it 4 ounces of spike oyle then strene it & put it up take hed of Burn ing it to the pan botom thare fore keep it stiring
Subject: See all items with this value medicinal plants; See all items with this value rosemary; See all items with this value bay (herb); See all items with this value sage (herb); See all items with this value ointments; See all items with this value suet; See all items with this value boiling (cooking)
Contributor: Abu-Bader, Nagham; Le, Vincent; Stevens (Fehsenfeld), Jen
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.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine