Thursday, August 14, 2014

The Duchess de la Valliere's Mouth Water

Take:

  • 2 ounces Cinnamon
  • 6 drachms  Cloves, 
  • Water Cress
  • 1 1/2 ounces fresh Lemon Peel
  • 1 ounce Red Rose Leaves
  • 1/2 pound Scurvy Grass, 
  • 3 pints Spirit of Wine


Bruise the Spices, cut the Water Cress and Scurvy Grass small, and macerate the whole in Spirit of Wine, in a bottle well corked, during twenty-four hours ; then distill to dryness in a vapour-bath, and afterwards rectify the distilled Water by repeating the fame process.

This Water strengthens the gums, prevents the scurvy, and cures asthma, or little ulcerations in the mouth.  It is used to gargle the mouth with, either by itself,  or diluted with water, as occasion may require. 

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