A friendship cake recipe called 30-day cake prepared by WCSU Archives staff. The recipe comes from: Treasured Recipes published by the Shelter Rock School, Danbury.
"receipt for ointment take
one handful of wormwood
one handful of rue
one handful of suren wood
one handful seneca
make it in deerweed water
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one ounce of butter,
[del?] divide it off into two parts
take one half and slice it thin
and put into half a pint of warm over night
in the morning squeeze it out. Put in as much honey or sugar as will make
into a syrup. Put it over the fire.
Boil very easily stir it while boiling
stir it while a boiling down to the
thickness of new honey. That painful morning and evening while taking the
above mixture for [the not constant?] drink
tar water for the [constant?] drink all four
all [add?] salt grease and all [add?] spirit mead wine and water"
A collection of recipes put together by the Danbury High School Home Economics Department meant to help reduce the use of meat and sugar during World War II.