Name: To Crystalize Grasses
Ingredients: two pounds of alum in one quart of boiling water; one quart of boiling water

To Crystalize Grasses

Ingredients

two pounds of alum in one quart of boiling water
one quart of boiling water

Directions

Dissolve two pounds of alum in one quart of boiling water, and let cool nearly down to blood heat ; pour over the grasses which have previously been suspended over a basin or jar; let stand in the shade twenty-four hours.

By Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio). 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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To Crystalize Grasses