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To Remove Tartar from the Teeth

From The national course in home economics, 1917

Serves 20

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 387. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO REMOVE TARTAR FROM THE TEETH. Forty grains of finely-powdered boracic acid, thirty grains of chlorate of potassium, twenty grains of powdered guaracum, sixty grains of pre- pared chalk, one ounce of powdered carbonate of magnesia and one drop of attar of roses

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