The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the camphor gum, white wax, and spermaceti slowly in a double boiler.
Once melted, add the sweet oil and mix well.
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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