1800s Healing Salve Recipe from a reader included in With All My Heart—Book 2, Discerning God’s Best series

When writing With All My Heart, I requested help from my readers to locate a period-appropriate recipe. I was thinking of cake or cookies, but Joan Archibald shared her great-grandmother’s recipe for Healing Salve, and I knew it had to be a part of the story. This unique recipe, or one like it, was often used in the late 1800s American West.

The history of the recipe

Sarah Roper Dimmick, Joan’s great-great grandmother, lived in Fayette, Utah. (Pictured in the circle above) Sarah’s pare...