Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 39. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.
This is a historic medicinal salve, not a food recipe. The combination of rosin (pine resin) provides tackiness and adhesion, beeswax creates structure and water resistance, mutton suet adds emollience and helps ingredients blend, while gum arabic acts as an emulsifier to bind the components. When heated together, these ingredients form a stable semi-solid preparation that was used for drawing poultices or plasters in 19th-century medicine.
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As a historical medicinal preparation, this salve would have been made in batches and stored for extended periods in the 19th century, though modern storage recommendations would differ significantly.
Historical storage methods are not applicable to modern use. This recipe is preserved for its cultural and historical significance as part of one of the earliest African American cookbooks.
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