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Camphok Ice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Camphok Ice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the white wax and mix it with the olive oil.

  2. Add the menthol and gum tragacanth to 24 ounces of water.

  3. Soak the gum for 4 hours, shaking often, then strain through a cloth.

  4. Dissolve the menthol in the acetic acid, then combine all ingredients.

  5. Pour the mixture into molds and place in a cool area to set.

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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