Adder Red Dye

Ingredients

• To each pound of goods
• alum, five ounces
• cream-tartar, one ounce
• bran, one peck
• madder, one-half pound

Method

1. 1

   Put in goods and bring kettle to a boil for one-half hour, then air them and boil one-half hour longer.

2. 2

   Empty kettle and fill with clean water; put in bran, make it milk-warm, and let it stand until bran rises, then skim off the bran and put in madder; heat slowly until it boils and is done.

3. 3

   Wash in strong suds.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Ransom's family receipt book, 1885 (1885) by D. Ransom, Son & Co, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

alum, five ounces ; cream-tartar, three ounces ; boil goods in this one hour, then put goods into warm water which has more or less extract of indigo in it, according to the depth of color desired, and boil again until it suits, adding more of the blue if needed. |&Jg ADDER RED. — To each pound of goods, alum, five ounces; red, or i wi cream-tartar, one ounce. Put in goods and bring kettle to a boil, for one-half hour, then air them and boil one-half hour longer • empty kettle and Ml with clean water ; put in bran, one peck

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