The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the white wax, Vaseline, and camphor together.
Once dissolved, add the glycerine and mix thoroughly.
Pour the mixture into suitable molds.
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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