A Cure for Burns or Scalds

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working ... · Francatelli, Charles Elmé · 1852
Source
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (4)
  1. Thoroughly bruise a raw onion and a potato into a pulp, by scraping or beating them with a rolling-pin.
  2. Mix this pulp with a good table-spoonful of salad oil.
  3. Apply it to the naked burn or scald.
  4. Secure it on the part with a linen bandage.
Original Text
No. 233. A Cure for Burns or Scalds. Thoroughly bruise a raw onion and a potato into a pulp, by scraping or beating them with a rolling-pin; mix this pulp with a good table-spoonful of salad oil, and apply it to the naked burn or scald; secure it on the part with a linen bandage.
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