Complexion Wash
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 8
Removes flesh-worms and freckles.
Presented as published in 1887. 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 Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 368. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
COMPLEXION WASH. Put in a vial one drachm of benzoin gum in powder, one drachm nut- meg oil, six drops of orange-blossom tea, or apple blossoms put in half pint of rain-water and boiled down to one teaspoonful and strained, one pint of sherry wine
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