| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in recipe are: powder of liquorice, caraway, ‘sugarcandy beaten finale’, powder of rhubarb, and cream of tartar ‘pulverized’.
It recommends to put the mixture in a box to keep in your pocket, and to eat [one minim] at twice or thrice a day for a week.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22. |