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Perspiration Powder

From The national course in home economics, 1917

Serves 10

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Presented as published in 1917. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 385. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PERSPIRATION POWDER. One ounce of boracic acid, one drachm of burnt alum, one-half ounce of French chalk, six and one-half ounces of starch. Perfume with fifteen drops each of oil of lemon and oil of bergamot

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