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Odor Delectabilis

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

Ingredients 6 ingredients

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

Method

  1. Take four ounces of distilled rose-water, four ounces of orange-flower water, one drachm of oil of cloves, one of English oil of lavender, two drachms of oil of bergamot, two grains of musk, one pint of spirits of wine ;
  2. macerate thoroughly, and add one drachm of essence of musk.

Plating

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Credit

From Excelsior cook book, and housekeeper's aid (1870), printed page 278, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/excelsiorcookboo00trow

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.