Ice Flowers
Ingredients
Directions
Make a 2% solution of gelatin in distilled water and filter it.
Flood the desired surface with the gelatin solution.
Drain slightly and place the plate outside in cold air to freeze.
Once frozen, flood the flowers with absolute alcohol to remove ice.
To preserve, varnish with clear shellac or treat with potassium bichromates and expose to sunlight.
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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