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Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 11 ingredients

  1. Coffee
  2. Milk
  3. 2 drachms of oil of almonds
  4. 2 drachms of white Windsor soap
  5. 2 drachms of white wax
  6. 12 ounces of rosewater
  7. 1 drachm of oil of bergamot
  8. Butter
  9. 3 ounces of rectified spirits
  10. 2 ounces of blanched almonds
  11. Tea

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. It is very difficult to keep milk sweet in the hot summer months.
  2. The best plan is to scald it gently soon after it is milked, taking care that it does not boil.
  3. All new milk in Devonshire, whether for butter or to be used in tea or coffee, &c.
  4. , is scalded at once, and set to cool in the iron dish or pan in which it is scalded.
  5. MILK OP ROSES, an Invaluable Wash for Sunburns, Freckles, &c.
  6. Ingredients : 2 ounces of blanched almonds, 12 ounces of rosewater, 2 drachms of white Windsor soap, 2 drachms of white wax, 2 drachms of oil of almonds, 3 ounces of rectified spirits, 1 drachm of oil of bergamot, 15 drops of oil of lavender, 8 drops of attar of roses.
  7. — Mode: Beat the almond to a fine paste in a mortar, then add the rose-water gradually, so as to make an emulsion.
  8. Have ready the soap?
  9. white wax, and oil reduced to a liquid in a covered jar near the fire.
  10. Work the mixture gradually into the mortar with the emulsion ;
  11. strain the whole through a fine muslin, and add the essential oils, which should previously have been dropped into the spirit.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Sieve
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Credit

From All about everything (1871), printed page 230, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/allabouteverythi00beet

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.