Autumn Leaves and Ferns
From The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book, 1901
Serves 1
Change the newspaper daily while pressing leaves until thoroughly dry.
Presented as published in 1901. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book (1901) by Johnson, Alice A.,, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Autumn Leaves and Ferns. Happy hours may be passed in gathering and pressing ferns and autumn leaves, with which to adorn the house when winter has made desolate the fields without. Never have too many of these in one apartment, for ornament should always be subordinate, and no room should be smoth- ered with either growing plants, or pressed leaves and ferns. In preparing these, the brilliant maple and other leaves should be, after drying and pressing, dipped into thin wax, or varnished
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