Name: Mucilage for Envelopes
Ingredients: one pint boiling water; a piece of borax as large as a walnut; a tablespoonful of alcohol will prevent mould; quarter pound

Mucilage for Envelopes

Ingredients

one pint boiling water
a piece of borax as large as a walnut
a tablespoonful of alcohol will prevent mould
quarter pound

Directions

Quarter pound .of gum-arabic, one pint boiling water, and a piece of borax as large as a walnut. Put it into a large mouthed bottle when thoroughly mixed. Shake it occasion- ally for three or four days. After it is corked, if the weather is hot, a tablespoonful of alcohol will prevent mould.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". 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.