Cucumber Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the white wax and spermaceti together.
Add the benzoinated lard and mix well.
In a separate bowl, prepare the cucumbers by peeling and slicing them.
Combine the melted mixture with the cucumber slices.
Add borax as needed to achieve the desired consistency.
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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