Name: Almond Bloom
Ingredients: 1 ounce Brazil dust; 3 pints distilled water; 6 teaspoons isinglass; 2 teaspoons cochineal; 1 ounce alum; 8 teaspoons borax

Almond Bloom

Ingredients

Directions

Boil Brazil dust in distilled water and strain.
Add isinglass, cochineal, alum, and borax.
Boil again and strain through a fine cloth.

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.