Marsh-Mallow
From The new practical housekeeping, 1890
Serves 4
Keep in tin boxes powdered with starch to prevent sticking.
Presented as published in 1890. 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 The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 126. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Marsh-Mallow. — Take one pound each gum arable and fine sugar, half a pint of the decoction of marsh-mallow root, two or three drops essence of neroli, or a small quantity of orange flower water ana whites of six eggs ; pulverize the gum arable very finely, after which place it in a round-Dottomed basin (which must be very clean and bnght). Add to it one and a half pints water
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