| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: powder of ‘spurge’ [euphorbia], cinnamon, and egg or chicken broth.
It instructs to take the powder with a little bit of cinnamon a ‘reare’ egg or in ‘the broth of a hen’.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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