[Sca-cooks] Horse Dung and Pregnancy

[Susan Lin]

Well, there are those women who eat clay or dirt.  Thankfully I had none of
those cravings!

I'm sure we've all read about interesting items people ate and things
people did that we probably would not embrace today.
This is something I would prefer to learn about by reading and not by
trying!

Shoshanah


On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Elise Fleming <alysk at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Greetings! I think I've found one recipe for women in labor that contains
> horse dung. There may be another, earlier recipe but this one is from "The
> Receipt Book of Ann Blencowe", 1695.
>
> To make ye horse dunge water.
>
> Take horse dunge & putt to it so much Ale as will make it like hasty
> puding, and put it into your still. Then putt on ye topp one pound of
> reakell, and a quarter of a pound of genger in powder, and a quarter of a
> pound of sweet anniseeds, and so distill all these together. This water is
> good for women in labor and in childbed, for Agues and feavers and all
> distempers.
>
> There are numerous recipes for concoctions relating to women and their
> ailments or conditions in Robert May's "The English Housewife". They are in
> the physical receipt section and deal with topics such as increasing
> women's milk, drying it up, poultice for sore breasts, for ease in
> childbearing, for a dead child in the womb, a general purge for a woman in
> child bed, etc.
>
> I've come across two recipes using doves' dung. One is in the aforesaid
> "English Housewife"
>
> May also has a recipe for the "flux" which includes a dried, grated up,
> stag's pizzle, drunk in either beer, wine or ale.
>
> Think I'll go have dinner now...
>
> Alys K.
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