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Bofe Wafer

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Bofe Wafer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather your roses when they are dry and fully bloomed.

  2. Pick off the leaves and place them in a cold still.

  3. Add 1 quart of water for every peck of leaves.

  4. Make a slow fire under the still and distill gradually.

  5. Bottle the distilled water and cork it for use after 2 or 3 days.

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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