Flower Preservatives
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the paraffin until it is just hot enough to remain fluid.
Dip each flower one at a time by the stalk, moving it around briefly to remove air bubbles.
Prepare a solution by mixing salicylic acid, formaldehyde, alcohol, and distilled water.
Immerse cut flowers in the solution to preserve them.
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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