Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 286
pread be-tween sheets of glass whichare held about four inchesapart by wooden frames. Oneach side of the glass is alayer of lard, a little less thanhalf an inch in thickness. Thesheets of glass, with their loadof petals, are piled one above another, and at theend of about twenty-four hours it is… … surrounded with boiling water.When the lard has melted, thepetals are added; here they areallowed to remain for fromtwelve to twenty-four hours.At the end of this time themass is filtered to remove thenow scentless petals. Theoperation of adding fresh pet-als to the melted lard is re-peated again…
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