The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Mix Ammonium Carbonate and Potassium Chlorate in a bowl.
Add Compound Tincture of Camphor.
Pour in Camphor Water until the total volume reaches 8 fluid ounces.
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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