Ingredients
- one quart of water
- four hard crackers that are baked quite brown
Directions
1
Break in pieces three or four hard crackers that are baked quite brown, and let them boil fifteen minutes in one quart of water; then remove from the fire, let them stand three or four minutes, strain off the liquor through a fine wire sieve, and season it with sugar.
2
This is a nourishing beverage for infants that are teething, and with the addition of a little wine and nutmeg, is often prescribed for invalids recovering from a fever.
By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann ·
Recipe sourced from
gutenberg