Tooth Wash

Ingredients

• Two ounces of fine ground myrrh
• two ounces of Peruvian bark
• two ounces of orris root
• two tablespoonfuls of white sugar
• Fill the bottle with alcohol
• two ounces of white oak bark
• a quart of water
• When boiled down to one pint

Method

1. 1

   Put myrrh, Peruvian bark, orris root, and sugar into a large bottle.

2. 2

   Fill with alcohol, shake well, and let stand for a week.

3. 3

   Pour off the clear liquid into another bottle.

4. 4

   Steep white oak bark in a quart of water for one hour, boil down to one pint, and add to the alcohol mixture.

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.

TOOTH WASH. Two ounces of fine ground myrrh, two ounces of Peruvian bark, two ounces of orris root. Put them into a large bottle with two tablespoonfuls of white sugar. Fill the bottle with alcohol, shake it well and let stand a week. Then pour off all that is clear into another bottle. Steep two ounces of white oak bark one hour in a quart of water. When boiled down to one pint

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