VALUABLE RECIPES.

Shannon News, 9 February 1926, Page 2

VALUABLE RECIPES.

HOW FORTUNES HAVE BEEN MADE. The other day a recipe for a patent medicine was sold in Chicago for nearly £3OOO. Yet this was, after all, a trifling price compared with those that have been paid for similar formulas. The secret of making a certain pill was sold at auction in London for £SOOO. Giovanni Farina, the original inventor of eu-de-cologue, offered to sell the details of his discovery for £750! The original recipe for Worcester sauce was bought for ,a few' shillings from a butler by the head of the firm that makes it. The little scrap of paper, now yellow with age, on which the ingredients were written is still in existence. 1 The process used for the manufacture of Bank of England note-paper is still a secret, and an immensely valu-, able oue. That for making the special thin tough India paper used by the Oxford Press is valued at £250,000. It cost over £20,000 and twenty years of constant experimenting to discover the process. All records of the kirn! go by the board when compared w'ith the value of the recipes for the two wonderful liqueurs, the green and the yellow Chartreuse. When the monks of La Grande. Chartreuse were expelled from France the abbot carried with him the volume of one hundred pages containing the list of 137 different ingredients and the directions for using them. The little book sold afterwards in open market, for the amazing sum of £330,00(1. ■