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From The new standard formulary (1910).

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A historical recipe

The new standard formulary, by A. Emil Hiss (1910).

United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a cup of coffee

Method

  1. Oleoresin of male fern.
  2. ..
  3. .drops 30 The whole is to be taken in a liberal quantity of sweet milk immediately upon arising in the morning.
  4. Water .
  5. sufficient Acacia, powder .
  6. av.oz.
  7. Mix the bark in coarse powder with 8 fluidounces of water, macerate for 10 hours, then heat on a water bath for 2 hours, express, heat the residue as before for .2 hours with 7 fluidounces of water, express again, mix the two liquids, evaporate them on a water bath to 4^2 fluidounces, make an emulsion with this and the oil and gum, and finally add the syrup.
  8. An adult is to take one-half of this mixture upon arising, subsequently taking a cup of coffee or tea, and following in one-half hour with the remainder of the mixture.

Plating

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Credit

From The new standard formulary (1910), printed page 4, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101501213.nlm.nih.gov

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.