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Camphor Ball

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson." · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Camphor Ball

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Four tablespoonsful sweet oil, one hundred and twenty grains of white wax, one hundred and twenty grains spermaceti, six and a quarter grains camphor. Put all in a cup on the fire until dissolved.

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.

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