Sweet Powder for Cloaths

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
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Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (12)

two pounds and a half of orris roots ↝ Burdock root, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
of lignum rodium six ounces
of scraped cypreſs roots three ounces ↝ Burdock root, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
of damask roses carefully dried a pound and a half ↝ Rose-apples, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
of Benjamin four ounces and a half
of storax two ounces and a half
of sweet-marjoram three ounces
of labdanum one ounce
a dram of calamus aromaticus
one dram of musk seeds ↝ Seeds, lotus seeds, raw [Nut and Seed Products]
six drams of lavender and flowers ↝ Sesbania flower, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
mellilot flowers, if you please ↝ Sesbania flower, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]

Instructions (1)

Take two pounds and a half of orris roots, of lignum rodium six ounces, of scraped cypreſs roots three ounces, of damask roses carefully dried a pound and a half, of Benjamin four ounces and a half, of storax two ounces and a half, of sweet-marjoram three ounces, of labdanum one ounce, and a dram of calamus aromaticus, and one dram of musk seeds, six drams of lavender and flowers, and mellilot flowers, if you please.

Original Text

To make sweet Powder for Cloaths.
TAKE two pounds and a half of orris roots, of lignum rodium six ounces, of scraped cypreſs roots three ounces, of damask roses carefully dried a pound and a half, of Benjamin four ounces and a half, of storax two ounces and a half, of sweet-marjoram three ounces, of labdanum one ounce, and a dram of calamus aromaticus, and one dram of musk seeds, fix drams of lavender and flowers, and mellilot flowers, if you please.

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