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Cocoa-nut Candles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Cocoa-nut Candles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut cocoa-nut oil into pieces 2 feet long, 3-4 inches wide, and 1.5 inches thick.

  2. Wrap each piece in linen, then in sail cloth.

  3. Place the wrapped pieces in a hydraulic press at 50-60°F (10-15°C).

  4. Collect the oil that comes through the cloth, leaving the stearine behind.

  5. Put the stearine in a covered boiler in a water bath.

  6. Add 2% by weight of diluted sulphuric acid (2% acid to 6 parts water).

  7. Boil to coagulate and precipitate impurities, then skim, strain, and filter while warm.

  8. Allow to settle in cold to obtain a firm substance for candles.

  9. Mould the candles in the usual way.

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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