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Cachou Aromatise

These dry it thoroughly in a warm place. When popular pastilles for perfuming the breath are the nitrated charcoal is perfectly dry, pour thus made: Dissolve 3½ ounces extract of upon it a mixture of 1/2 drachm each of the liquorice in 4 ounces water, by the heat of a attars of thyme, caraway, rose, lavender, water bath, and add pulverized gum-arabic, cloves, and santal; then stir in 6 ounces ounce; and Bengal catechu in powder, 1 benzoic acid (flowers of benzoin); mix thorounce. Evaporate to the consistence of an oughly through a sieve, then beat in a mortar extract, and then mix in thoroughly, pow. with sufficient mucilage to bind together. dered mastic, charcoal, cascarilla, and orris Make into pastils, and dry. Take root, each drachm. When the mass has 1341. Basis for French Pastils. been reduced to the proper consistence, it is of charcoal, 1½ pounds avoirdupois; nitre, 2 to be removed from the fire, treated with attar ounces; gum-tragacanth, 1 ounce; mix in of peppermint, 30 drops; tinctures of amber- the dry state. It is used as a basis for the gris and musk, 5 drops; and then poured out following French pastils, as well as many upon an oiled slab, and rolled to a very thin others:sheet. After cooling, blotting paper is pressed upon it to absorb any adhering oil, and the surfaces are moistened with water, and covered with silver leaf. When dry it is to be divided into small bits of the size of a lentil.