Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2
[Oil of Cloves to Preserve Paste]
Oil of Cloves to Preserve Paste.—The Superior Printer has the following recipe for a good paste, which will keep for months in a stoppered bottle:—Dissolve a piece of alum the size of a walnut in a pint of boiling water, to which two spoonfuls of flour, made smooth in a little cold water, and a few drops of oil of cloves have been added, the mixture being then boiled.