Name: Garlic Ball
Ingredients: 10 dr. garlic; linseed or liquorice (enough to form a mass)

Garlic Ball

Ingredients

10 dr. garlic
linseed or liquorice (enough to form a mass)

Directions

Beat garlic to a paste.
Add linseed or liquorice until it forms a mass.

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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What each ingredient does

Garlic: Provides the main flavour and, once beaten to a paste, the body that the mass is formed from.
Linseed or liquorice: Binds the garlic paste into a mass that holds its shape.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.