To Make Starch
Item
- Title
- To Make Starch
- Description
- A recipe to make starch by straining water in which a chisel has been soaked.
- Transcript
- [T]ake Chisiel and rubb it well in to watter; Cover it up close, let it stand 9 nights in watter then strane all the great through a haire sive and let the white watter stand untill the next Morning, then put more watter to it, mix it well togeather & strain it through a fine Cloth. for [text struck] 3 mornings together, all the while you are straining of it keep [text struck] stiring of it or it wont go through. then take it up, lay it over a [illegible] to dry upon a cloth & use it at your [illegible]
- Contributor
- Caylor, Karmen
- Le, Vincent
- Source
- Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
- Publisher
- George Mason University Libraries
- Rights
- Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
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