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To Destroy Caterpillars on Gooseberry Trees, &C.

This recipe uses tobacco water, which may not be safe for consumption.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Destroy Caterpillars on Gooseberry Trees, &C.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil a quantity of elder leaves in enough water to cover them until the liquid turns black.

  2. Strain and cool the liquid.

  3. Mix one gallon of this liquid with one gallon of tobacco water.

  4. When the trees are dry, apply the mixture using a fine rose water pot.

  5. Wait ten minutes for the caterpillars to fall off.

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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