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From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829).

Source and licence

From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829), printed page 4, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101091388.nlm.nih.gov

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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. Take away a quart of blood and throw up a laxative clyster;
  2. then give one ounce of salt-petre and one fluid ounce of sweet spirits of nitre in a pint of water.