Agar-agar Decoction
A historical recipe from The healthy life beverage book, by Knaggs, H. Valentine (Henry Valentine) (1911).
A historical recipe
The healthy life beverage book: A compilation, alphabetically arranged, of refreshing, curative, stimulating, and nutritive liquids, comprising fresh fruit and vegetable juices, vegetable broths, cereal drinks, unfired fruit soups, nut milks, plant teas, herbal decoctions, fruit syrups, gum water, &c., with critical notes on water, milk, casein, whey, beef tea, yeast extracts, vinegar, sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, &c., also information respecting the nutritive and medicinal properties of all the products referred to, by Knaggs, H. Valentine (Henry Valentine) (1911). Project Gutenberg eBook #78781.
From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.
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- Take 2 ozs.
- of any kind of fruit juice, add 1 pint of hot water in which a few small strands of agar-agar have been previously dissolved.