The cook's oracle : containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families; containing also a complete system of cooking for catholic families / being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of William Kitchiner.

  • Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827.
Date:
1837
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Credit: The cook's oracle : containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families; containing also a complete system of cooking for catholic families / being the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of William Kitchiner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STOMACHIC TINCTURE, 674. Is,— Peruvian Bark, bruised, one ounce and a half. Orange Peel, do. one ounce. Brandy, or Proof Spirit, one pint. Let these ingredients steep for ten days, shaking the bottle every day—let it remain quiet two days—and then decant the clear li- quor. Dose—a Tea-spoonful in a wine-glass of water, twice a day when you feel languid, i. e. when the Stomach is empty, about an hour before Dinner, and in the Evening. This agreeable Aromatic Tonic is an effective help to concoction, —and we are under personal obligations to it, for frequently restor- ing our Stomach to good temper, and procuring us good Appetite and good Digestion. In low nervous affections arising from a languid circulation—and when the Stomach is in a state of debility from age, intemperance, or other causes—this is a most acceptable restorative. N.B. Tea made with dried and bruised Seville Orange Peel, in the same way as common Tea, and drank with Milk and Sugar, has been taken by nervous and dyspeptic persons with great benefit. Sucking a bit of dried Orange-Peel about an hour before dinner, when the Stomach is empty, is very grateful and strengthening to it. PAREGORIC ELIXIR. 675. A drachm of purified Opium. Same of Flowers of Benjamin. Same of Oil of Aniseed. Camphor, two scruples. Steep all in a pint of Brandy or Proof Spirit: let it stand ten days, occasionally shaking it up. Strain. A tea-spoonful in half a pint of White Wine Whey (662), Te- wahdiddle (659), or Gruel (668), taken the last thing at night, is an agreeable and effectual medicine for Coughs and Colds. It is also excellent for Children who have the Hooping-Cough, in doses of from five to twenty drops in a little water, or on a little bit of Sugar.