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Capped Hocks

From Six hundred receipts.

Source and licence

From Six hundred receipts, printed page 380, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/600-hundred-recipe-studyebookscom

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What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

  • Curing. Old curing amounts and salts may be unsafe. Use current tested guidance.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. If the swelling proceed from a bruise or a blow, bathe it three or four times a day with salt and vinegar, made warm.
  2. If it proceed from natural cause, apply the suppurating poultice, and when matter is formed, let it out;
  3. then use the green ointment.
  4. Take, a quart of blood from the neck, then give warm mashes, with a scruple of nitre in them.
  5. Purge with castor and linseed oil, and keep the stable warm.