This section is from the book "Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery", by Miss Leslie. Also available from Amazon: Miss Leslie's Complete Cookery.
Cut up a shilling cake of white wax; put it into a clean sauce-pan with an ounce of oil of sweet almonds, and two large table-spoonfuls of lard. Boil and stir it well. When you take it off the fire, beat in an ounce of orange-flower, or rose-water. Put it up in gallicups with covers.
 
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