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A Good Drink from Dried Cherries

From The management of the sick room (1845).

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From The management of the sick room (1845), printed page 48, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/63750170R.nlm.nih.gov

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Pour two pints of boiling water over half a pound of dried cherries, (the bitter ones are preferable,) let the water stand for half or three quarters of an hour, then strain it, and after sweetening it to your taste, let it boil again.
  2. It makes an excellent drink to moisten the mouth in cases of fever.
  3. It may be used cold, but is generally preferred when warm.