Product Description
This recipe is taken directly from the book, "Lee's Priceless Recipes: 3000 Secrets for the Home, Farm, Laboratory, Workshop and Every Department of Human Endeavor" by Dr. N.T. Oliver. Published in Chicago by Laird & Lee, Publishers. Circa 1895.
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Cantharides Plaster.
Melt together yellow wax and suet each 7-1/2 pounds, lard 6 ounces, and resin 3 ounces; while cooling sprinkle in and mix thoroughly 1 pound very finely powdered Spanish flies.