Name: Ice Flowers
Ingredients: 9% clear gelatin; distilled water; absolute alcohol; clear shellac; potassium bichromate

Ice Flowers

Ingredients

Directions

Make a 9% solution of clear gelatin in distilled water and filter it.
Flood the filtrate over the desired surface.
Drain slightly and place the plate outside in cold air to freeze.
Once frozen, flood the flowers with absolute alcohol to remove the ice.
To preserve, varnish or flow with an alcoholic solution of clear shellac, or treat with potassium bichromate and expose to sunlight.

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.