Take six pounds of the white sweet almond cakes, from which jessamine
oil has been made abroad; beat and sift them to a fine powder, and
put to it as much fresh oil of jessamine as will be required to make
it into a stiff paste. Let this paste be dissolved in about six
quarts of spring water, which has been previously well boiled, and
left until it has become about half cold. Stir and mix the whole well
together; and when the oil and water has been well combined, let the
whole stand until the powder has fallen to the bottom of the vessel.
Now pour the liquid off gently, and filter it through cotton, in a
large tin funnel, into the glass bottle in which it is to be kept for
use.
The powder or sediment which has been left at the bottom of the
vessel, when dried by the heat of the sun, answers very well for
making almond paste for the hands.