Coffee Starch
Ingredients
Directions
Make a paste of starch and a little cold water until smooth.
Stir in the boiling hot coffee.
Boil for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring with a candle or similar tool.
Strain and use for dark fabrics like calicoes, percales, and muslins.
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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