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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. four ounces of distilled rose water
  2. four ounces of orange flower water
  3. two drachms of oil of bergamot
  4. one drachm of oil of cloves
  5. one drachm of oil of lavender
  6. one pint of spirits of wine

Method

  1. Take four ounces of distilled rose water ;
  2. four ounces of orange flower water ;
  3. one drachm of oil of cloves ;
  4. one drachm of oil of lavender ;
  5. two drachms of oil of bergamot ;
  6. two grains of ambergris ;
  7. two grains of musk ;
  8. and one pint of spirits of wine.
  9. Dissolve the musk and ambergris in the spirits of wine ;
  10. then mix the whole well.

Plating

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Credit

From The American Housewife (1878), printed page 351, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/americanhousewi00shutgoog

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.