Flower Preservatives
Ingredients
Directions
Dissolve 20 grains of salicylic acid and 10 minims of formaldehyde in 2 fluid ounces of alcohol.
Add 1 quart of distilled water to the mixture.
Immerse fresh cut flowers in the solution to preserve them.
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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