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MUCILAGE FOR ENVELOPES

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Ingredients

  • one pint boiling water
  • a piece of borax as large as a walnut
  • a tablespoonful of alcohol will prevent mould
  • quarter pound

Directions

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Quarter pound .of gum-arabic, one pint boiling water, and a piece of borax as large as a walnut. Put it into a large mouthed bottle when thoroughly mixed. Shake it occasion- ally for three or four days. After it is corked, if the weather is hot, a tablespoonful of alcohol will prevent mould.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson." · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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