The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Dissolve the soap in half of the distilled water with the ammonia.
In the other half of the water, dissolve the chloride of ammonium.
Mix the two solutions together.
Dissolve the camphor in the oil of turpentine and add it to the mixture.
Shake briskly until a perfect emulsion forms.
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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