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For Crystalizing Grass

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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For Crystalizing Grass

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve rock alum in boiling water and let it cool.

  2. In a wide-mouth vessel, hang a few grasses at a time in the solution.

  3. Ensure the grasses are not too heavy for the stems to support.

  4. You can reheat the alum solution to add more grasses.

  5. Add a little coloring for variety if desired.

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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