Molasses Possets

Ingredients

1 pint of the best West India molasses
1 tea-spoonful of powdered white ginger
1/4 pound of fresh butter
juice of 2 lemons or 2 table-spoonfuls of vinegar

Instructions

Put into a sauce-pan the molasses, ginger, and butter. Set it on hot coals, and simmer it slowly for half an hour; stirring it frequently. Do not let it come to a boil. Then stir in the lemon juice or vinegar; cover the pan, and let it stand by the fire five minutes longer. This is good for a cold. Some of it may be taken warm at once, and the remainder kept at hand for occasional use.

It is the preparation absurdly called by the common people a stewed quaker.

Half a pint of strained honey mixed cold with the juice of a lemon, and a table-spoonful of sweet oil, is another remedy for a cold; a tea-spoonful or two to be taken whenever the cough is troublesome.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).