SWEET LAVENDER.
(Sent in by Jessie Meiklc, Astley Avenue, Xew Lynn; age 10.) Here is a recipe for all girls who have carefully harvested their lavender flowers:— Take Alb lavender flowers, Aoz dried thyme, ioz dried mint, {oz ground cloves, 3oz carraway seeds (ground), loz common salt (dried). Have all your lavender flowers free of stalk. Rub the thyme and mint to a powder, then put all together in pretty silk or muslin bags, or in pourri jars. It is a very pleasant perfume.
Here is another recipe:—
Take cloves, carraway seeds, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, Tonquin beans (powdered), each loz, and of powdered Florentine orris roots as much as equals nil the rest. Put all these powdered ingredients into little bags among your clothes and they will prove a sure prevention, from moth.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 155, 5 July 1933, Page 16
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133SWEET LAVENDER. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 155, 5 July 1933, Page 16
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