A 19th Century Recipe for Making Pills for an Unknown Ailment
This scrap of paper found in the 19th century manuscripts of the Fincher family of Pike County, Georgia, has no date or author, nor does it state for what kind of ailment the pills are to be taken. Perhaps for indigestion?
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Tea spoonfull of white ginger, two tea spoonfull of white hew[?] saffron, the inside skin of six chickens gizzards, three table spoonfull of walnut bark. All is to be pulverized and mixed in molasses. Mix till it becomes enough to make pills then take one pill the size of a green Pea half an hour before each meal. The patient should not drink any sweet milk. |