Toilet or Face Powder
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 10
French method involves alcohol for drying.
Presented as published in 1887. 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 Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 368. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
TOILET OR FACE POWDER. Take a quarter of a pound of wheat starch pounded flne ; sift it through a flne sieve, or a piece of lace ; add to it eight drops of oil of rose, oil of lemon thirty drops, oil of bergamot fifteen drops
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