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To Destroy Caterpillars on Gooseberry Trees

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Destroy Caterpillars on Gooseberry Trees

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil a quantity of elder leaves in enough water to cover them until the liquid becomes black.

  2. Strain and cool the liquid.

  3. For every gallon of this liquid, add one gallon of tobacco water.

  4. When the trees are dry, apply the mixture using a fine rose water pot.

  5. Caterpillars will fall off in ten minutes.

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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