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To Kill Grass in Side Walks

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Keokuk (Iowa). Westminster Presbyterian church · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Kill Grass in Side Walks

Ingredients

Directions

  1. MRS. GILBERT COMSTOCK.

  2. One pound of arsenic ; two pounds of soda. Dissolve in four gallons of water, and pour on while hot.

By Keokuk (Iowa). Westminster Presbyterian church. 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. See the original page.