Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Another receipt for cologne water is to mix with a pint of alcohol,
sixty drops or two large tea-spoonfuls of orange-flower water, and the
same quantity of the essential oils of lemon, lavender, and bergamot.
LAVENDER WATER.
Mix two ounces of essential oil of lavender, and two drachms of essence
of ambergris, with a pint of spirits of wine; cork the bottle, and
shake it hard every day for a fortnight.
HUNGARY WATER.
Mix together one ounce of oil of rosemary and two drachms of essence of
ambergris; add them to a pint of spirits of wine. Shake it daily for a
month, and then transfer it to small bottles.
ROSE VINEGAR.
Fill a stone or china jar with fresh rose leaves put in loosely. Then
pour on them as much of the best white wine vinegar as the jar will
hold. Cover it, and set it in the sun, or in some other warm place for
three weeks. Then strain it through a flannel bag, and bottle it for
use, This vinegar will he found very fine for salads, or for any nice
purposes.
THIEVES’ VINEGAR.
Take a large handful of lavender blossoms, and the same quantity of
sage, mint, rue, wormwood and rosemary. Chop and mix them well. Put
them into a jar, with half an ounce of camphor that has been dissolved
in a little alcohol, and pour in three quarts of strong clear vinegar.
Keep the jar for two or three weeks in the hot sun, and at night plunge
it into a box of heated sand. Afterwards strain and bottle the liquid,
putting into each bottle a clove of garlic sliced. To have it very
clear, after it has been bottled for a week, you should pour it off
carefully from the sediment, and filter it through blotting paper. Then
wash the bottles, and return the vinegar to them. It should be kept
very tightly corked. It is used for sprinkling about in sick-rooms; and
also in close damp oppressive weather. Inhaling the odour from a small
bottle will frequently prevent faintness in a crowd.
It is best to make it in June.
This vinegar is so called from an old tradition, that during the
prevalence of the plague in London the composition was invented by four
thieves, who found it a preservative from contagion; and were by that
means enabled to remain in the city and exercise their profession to
great advantage, after most of the inhabitants had fled.
OIL OF FLOWERS.
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