Photo: Ernest Porzi
Ingredients
- a large tablespoonful of flax-seed
- a pound of pulverized sugar
- an ounce of pulverized gum arabic
Directions
1
To a large tablespoonful of flax-seed, allow a tumbler and a half of cold water. Boil them together till the liquid becomes very sticky. Then strain it hot over a quarter of a pound of pulverized sugar, and an ounce of pulverized gum arabic. Stir it till quite dissolved, and squeeze into it the juice of a lemon.
2
This mixture has frequently been found an efficacious remedy for a cold, taking a wine-glass of it as often as the cough is troublesome.
By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann ·
Recipe sourced from
gutenberg