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English Walnut Scent-cases

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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English Walnut Scent-cases

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut a silk bag measuring 3.5 inches square.

  2. Fill the bag with cotton wool sprinkled with 1 teaspoon of sachet powder.

  3. Carefully halve the walnuts and make holes at the top and bottom of each half using a heated hairpin.

  4. Varnish the walnut halves and let them dry in a warm place.

  5. Once dry, sew the walnut halves onto the bag at equal distances, points facing down.

  6. Sew a tiny bow above each walnut and another at the bottom of the bag, gathering it with a thread.

  7. Wrap a ribbon around the mouth of the bag and tie it into a bow.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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