Lavender Water

Original Recipe

Put a pint of highly rectified spirits of wine, to one ounce of essential oil of lavender, and two drachms of ambergris; shake them well together, and keep it closely stopped.

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Instructions

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    Put a pint of highly rectified spirits of wine, to one ounce of essential oil of lavender, and two drachms of ambergris; shake them well together, and keep it closely stopped.

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Recipe by Mary Randolph from The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook (1824)