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To Preserve Sweet Flag

From The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in ..., 1906

Dry sweet flag-root grated and mixed with sugar cures colic in babies.

Presented as published in 1906. 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 The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in ... (1906) by [name missing], page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Preserve Sweet Flag. Scrape and wash the flag root and cut it in thin slices. Boil until it is tender. Make a thick syrup of sugar and water

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