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An Emollient Diet Drink

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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An Emollient Diet Drink

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Steep mallow flowers and Canadian venus-hair in boiling water for a few minutes.

  2. Strain the mixture.

  3. Add ground gum arabic and clarified honey to the strained liquid.

  4. Stir until well combined and ready for use.

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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