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Boiled Flour for Invalids

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 3

Excellent substitute for arrow-root.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 147. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Flour fob Invalids. Take one pound of fine flour and tie it up in a strong linen cloth

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