{"id":1573,"date":"2015-07-01T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T11:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbouchard.com\/aneleda\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2015-09-03T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:58:03","slug":"on-the-milk-of-the-red-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbouchard.com\/aneleda\/on-the-milk-of-the-red-cow","title":{"rendered":"On the Milk of the Red Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magnus the Stout, who is a great brewer and an amazing re-creator of period brewing, posted some great info about the milk of a red cow, a thing required in the Snail Water.<\/p>\n

“So Aneleda’s got this snail water recipe that she wants to inflict on us. I applaud such efforts and eagerly await disgusting snail goop.<\/p>\n

The recipe calls for “red cow’s milk,” and there’s some question as to what that means.<\/p>\n

Well, here’s an interesting blog with a pamphlet from 1655 that includes a medicine with the same ingredient – the milk of a red cow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is for a smallpox treatment, so perhaps they thought red cows had some special healing properties.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ll include this in our research as to why on earth this recipe is so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Take the Milk of a red Cow<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n