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WAFFERS

Volume 20 · 91 words · 1823 Edition

or Sealing Wafers, are made thus: Take very fine flour, mix it with glair of eggs, isinglass, and a little yeast; mingle the materials; beat them well together; spread the batter, being made thin with gum-water, on even tin plates, and dry them in a stove; then cut them out for use.

You may make them of what colour you please, by tinged the paste with brasil or vermilion for red; indigo or verditer, &c. for blue; saffron, turmeric, or gamboge, &c. for yellow.

WAGER of Law. See (Wager of) Law.