Diet Drink
A historical recipe from The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822).
A historical recipe
The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822). Project Gutenberg eBook #29084.
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Source and licence
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #29084 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29084). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
- five gallons of small beer
- twelve ounces of red dock-roots
- three ounces of chicary roots
- two handfuls of sage
- two ounces of senna
- four ounces of red saunders
- a pound of
- six gallons of sweetwort
Method
- Infuse in five gallons of small beer, twelve ounces of red dock-roots, the pith taken out;
- three ounces of chicary roots, two handfuls of sage, balm, brooklime, and dandelion;
- two ounces of senna, two of rhubarb, four ounces of red saunders, and a few parsley and carraway seeds.
- Or boil a pound of the fine raspings of guaiacum, with six gallons of sweetwort, till reduced to five;
- and when it is set to work, put in the above ingredients.
- If a little salt of wormwood be taken with it, this diet drink will act as a diuretic, as well as a purgative.