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How to Prepare Liquid Cochineal

From Miss Parloa's kitchen companion, 1887

Serves 4

A few drops will color icing, cream, or jelly.

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 Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 472. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

How to Prepare Liquid Cochineal. Put into a small saucepan half a cupful of water, half an ounce of powdered cochineal, a level table-spoonful of cream-of-tartar, a piece of alum the size of a large pea, and one table-spoonful of sugar

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