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Cochineal For Present Use

Ingredients

• 2 cents' worth of cochineal
• 1/2 tea-cup of white brandy

Instructions

Take cochineal. Lay it on a flat plate, and bruise it with the blade of a knife. Put it into the white brandy. Let it stand a quarter of an hour, and then filter it through fine muslin.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).