The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

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Water Lilies

representative of the sacred lotus of the Nile. The water-lilies are easily cultivated by sinking the root, tied to a large stone, into the mud of a pond, or, if the bottom is hard, by tying the root to the top of a stone and covering with muck. Fig. 1.

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