Buckeye cookery

mer one hour and a half; take out, rinse, scour with soap, and dry. This makes a blue-black. To make a jet black, add three pounds fustic with the logwood. To color Cotton Blue.—Put ten pounds cotton, two and a half pounds copperas, in fifteen to twenty gallons water, and boil two hours; after boiling, take out, rinse in clear water, refill kettle with water, and add one-half pound prussiate of potash. Boil goods in this half an hour, lift out goods, and slowly add one-half pound oil of vitriol; return goods, and boil half an hour. Rinse in clear water and dry. os To color Cotton Green.—Add eight pounds fustic and one-half pound alum to the blue mixture of the preceding rule, put in goods and simmer until the required shade of green is obtained. | To color Cotton Chrome-yellow.—For fifteen pounds cotton goods or yarng dissolve eight ounces of white sugar of lead in one tub, and eight ounces of chrome in another. Put goods first in with sugar of lead, wring out goods well, and shake back into the liquid again, repeating the operation five times (in order to make the goods absorb as much color as possible); then put them through the chrome tub in the same way; then return again to the sugar of lead tub, treat as before, rinse off well, and dry. To make a dark shade, use brown sugar of lead, repeating three times in the sugar of lead and twice in the chrome. To color Cotton a good Black.—To a tub of cold water add for twenty pounds goods, five pounds sumac, wring and shake out goods and return to liquid a few times, let stand all night in sumac, then to another tub of water add a few pails of lime-water, put in goods, wring out, and put into another tub of cold water in which is two pounds of dissolved copperas and a pailful of old - sumac liquor, wring out six times; wring out and put into the lime-tub again, adding two more pails of lime-water. Prepare another tub of water, and adding to it six pounds of logwood and one pound of fustic previously scalded, put in the cotton, and wring out and return ten times; lift out, darken liquid with a little copperas, and return the goods. The omission of the sumac gives a purplish black, while the recipe as above gives a jet black. To color Silk Royal-blue.—Take ten pounds of silk, make up a tub of nitrate of iron at six degrees, to which add one pint of good muriate of tin and four ounces of tartaric acid; wring out and return, repeating for about an hour; in another tub add one and a half pounds of dissolved prussiate, and one gill of oil of vitriol. Wash goods out of iron tub, and put into prussiate tub, repeat in iron twice and once in prussiate, wash out of the iron, and put in a tub in which oil of vitriol until it tastes sour has been dissolved; give six wrings to clear off any rust that may adhere to it. More prussiate will produce a darker, and a less a lighter color, but the same quantity. of iron and tin must be used. To color Woolen-yarn: Yellow-brown.—For ten bunches dye with two pounds of camwood, five pounds fustic, one each of logwood and copperas. To color Woolen-yarn Scarlet.—Boil eight pounds yarn one hour with onehalf pound cochineal, two pounds of young fustic, seven-tenths pound of white or brown tartar, three-tenths of a quart of oxalic. muriate of tin. To color Ladies’ Cloth Purple.—For twenty-five yards goods, boil two and a haif hours with ten pounds of alum, two pounds of argol, and one-fourth of a quart nitrate of tin; wash well, and finish with seven and a half pounds logwood and one pound of peach wood in a clean vessel. Put in cool in finishing, and heat to boiling point. NotEe.—The compilers take pleasure in acknowledging their indebtedness for many valuable points embodied in this. book, to ‘‘ Care of the Sick;’’ ‘‘ Accidents and Emer- by Mrs Elizabeth S. Miller. and many other excellent works.