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Borage for Salads

Soak borage seeds in warm water for 15 minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Borage for Salads

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Cover a champagne bottle with raw cotton or heavy flannel and secure it with thread.

  2. Place the bottle in a soup plate and pour warm water over it.

Soak

  1. Soak the borage seeds in warm water for 15 minutes.

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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What each ingredient does

Borage seeds
The seeds are the main ingredient that the warm water soaks and softens.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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