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Ransom's family receipt book, 1885

1885

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Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
BLACK, -Make a weak dye as for black on woolens; work goods in bichromate of potash a little below boiling heat, then dip in the log¬ wood in same wBlack Dye for Silk or Woolensay ; if colored in blue vitriol dye, use about same heat. ORANGE. — For one pound goods— annotto, one pound ; soda, one poundOrange Dye ; repeat as desired. GREEN. — VERY HANDSOME.— For one pound goods— yellow oak bark, eight ounces ; boil one-half hour ; turn off liquor from bark and add alum, six ouncesGreen Dye ; let stand until cold, while making this, color goods in blue dye-tub a light blue ; dry and wash ; dip in alum and bark dye. If it does not take well, warm the dye a little. Purple.- For one pound goods. First obtain a light blue, by dipping j in home-made dye-tub ; then dry ; dip in alum, four ounces, with water to cover, when little warm. If color is not full enough add cbemic. YELLOW. — For,pne pound goods — alum, three ounces; sugar of lead, three-fourths ounce ; immerse goods in solution over night ; take out ; j drain, and make a new dye with fustic, one pound ; dip until required color i is obtained. CRIMSON.— For one pound goods — alum, three ounces ; dip at hand heat one hour ; take out and drain while making new dye by boiling ten minutes, cochineal, three ounces, bruised nut-galls, two ounces, anti cream-tartar, one-fourth ounce, in one pail of water; when little cool, begin to dip, raising heat to boil ; dip one hour ; wash and dry. SKY BL"E ON SILK OR COTTON. —VERY BEAUTIFUL.-Give goods as much color from a solution of blue vitriol, two ounces, to water, one gallon, as it will take up in dipping fifteen minutes, then run it through lime water. This will make a beautiful and durable sky blue. ROWN ON SILK OR COTTON.— VERY BEAUTIFUL. — After B obtaining a blue color as above, run goods through a solution of prus- , siate of potash, one ounce, to water, one gallon. IGHT BLUE. — For cold water, pne gallon, dissolve alum, one-half table¬ spoon, in hot water, one teacuo, and add to it, then add chemic, one L teaspoon at a timeLight Blue Dye to obtain the desired color- color. , (29) -the more chemic, darker the Any kind of Colic is cured with 1 ' Miller’s Balm.” Penuador cools, but doss sot blister ■„ GOOD FOE MAI AND BEAST GOOD for IAN, Inflammation of all kinds , Diphtheria Wounds , Brutes, Burns , Sprains , Rheumatism , •Sbrv Thread, Swelling of the Glands of the Broken Frost Bites, Chilblains, Piles , Bee Stings , -/$ all Sores. flow Iff H AS! Fresh Wounds Galls, Sprains, Bruises , Cracked Heel , Bone, Poll Evil, Wind Galls , Spavins, Sweeney , Founder, Lameness , Sand Cracks, Scratches or Grease, Mange, Horse Dis¬ tempers. Etc., Etc. Cures Garget, ScreTeals and Bags, and all Sores and Swellings on Cows and Oxen. A. HISTORY OF1 ITS DISGOTERir. 01 The above named article was discovered by me, during my connection; with the Clinton Liberal Institute, at Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y., as Professor of Chemistry, in attempting to form Prussic Acid by a quicker process than the ordinary way of uniting the independent gaseous bodies of which it is composed.