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Insect and Vermin Destroyer

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 1

Keep the solution boiling hot while using.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 345. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two pounds of alum in three or four quarts of water

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