Specification of Lord William Murray’s Patent for Extracting Starch From Horse Chesnuts
Ingredients
Directions
Remove horse chesnuts from their green prickly husks.
Using a knife or a mill, ensure no specks or sprouts remain.
Grate or grind the chesnuts finely into water.
Wash the resulting pulp through a coarse sieve.
Then wash it again through a finer sieve.
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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