Twentieth century home cook book

Coloring Cotton Green. — Dissolve six ounces of sugar of lead in hot water, four ounces bichromate potassa in warm water; dip the cloth in the sugar of lead, wring out, then dip in the potassa. Dip three or four times, till a bright yellow is obtained. When the cloth is dry, dissolve four ounces Prussian blue, four ounces oxalic acid. Dissolve separately in warm water; then turn together, and dip your cloth in the blue dye, and you will have a splendid green. Prussian blue and oxalic acid make a beautiful blue for cotton. Dip three or four times for a deep shade. Rinse in salt-water. — Mrs. D. B., Northfield, Minn.. Or this. For five pounds of goods dissolve nine ounces sugar of lead in four gallons rain-water. Dissolve in another vessel six ounces bichromate potash in four o-allons of rain-water. First, dye your goods blue (if you wish a dark green, you must have a dark blue— if light green, a light blue). Dip the goods first in the lead-water, then in the potash-water, and then again into the lead; wring out dry, and afterward rinse in cold water.— Mrs. E. M., Grand Mound, Iowa. XXX. Scarlet and Pink. Scarlet for Woollen Goods. — To each pound of goods take one ounce of pulverized cochineal, one-half ounce of cream-of-tartar, two ounces of muriate of tin. Use soft water. Color in tin or copper. Let the water get a little warm before putting the dyestuff in. Stir well, so that all is dissolved, then put in the goods and let them come to a boiling heat and simmer until the right shade is obtained. A beautiful rose color can be made by taking out when at that shade. It will not fade by washing or wearing, but grow darker as all other scarlets do. This will not do for cotton or silk. — Nettie, Paris, Kentucky. Pink. — Take three parts of cream-of-tartar and one of cochineal, nicely rubbed together; tie a teaspoonful in a mustard bag. Put this with a quart of boiling water; dip in the articles to be colored, previously cleaned and dipped in alum water; if wished stiff, put in a little gum arable. — C, Mansfield, Ohio. XXXI. Coloring-— Black, Brown and Slate. Black. — Take one pound of extract of logwood. Put it in a kettle and fill it half-full of water. Dissolve it the day before it is wanted, and pour half of it in a kettle of water. Put in your yarn and boil half an hour. Have ready a quarter of a pound of copperas dissolved in another kettle and take out your yarn and pour in half your copperas w'ater again. Put in your yarn. Let it remain five minutes. You will then have a nice black. When this is done, you can put in all of the rest of your dye and throw in all your old black and gray rags and color them over. You will thus have your rags in shape to take to the weaver's, and have a nice carpet. — Mrs. J. N., Eockford, Illinois. Brown. — For nine pounds of goods take one-half pound japonica, two ounces blue vitriol, one ounce bichromate of potash. Dissolve the japonica in enough soft water to cover the goods, and let them stay in all night. In the morning make a solution of the vitriol and potash ; wring the goods out of the other dye and let them stand in this half an hour. The goods should simmer in both dyes. For light brown use a brass, and for a dark, a copper kettle, to make the dyes in. This is a good recipe for coloring dress goods, as well as carpet rags. — Nellie B. Brown With Catechu. — Take one pound of catechu extract and one-half ounce of vitriol ; dissolve in rain water ; the catechu put in water enough to wet your goods. Color in an iron kettle. Then put in your vitriol. Wet your goods in soapsuds before putting in the dye. This is a fast color. — Blue Grass Brunette, Ky.