Cochineal Coloring

Ingredients

• 1 pint of water
• lib. of loaf sugar
• joz. of Cochineal
• loz. of salts of wormwood
• loz. of cream of tartar
• joz. of alum

Method

1. 1

   Put 1 pint of water into a copper stewpan, and dissolve 0.5 pound of loaf sugar in it; then add 1 ounce of Cochineal and 1 ounce of salts of wormwood, both crushed fine in a mortar, and boil for ten minutes, stirring in 1 ounce of cream of tartar and 1 ounce of alum.

2. 2

   When dissolved, strain the coloring through a flannel bag, and as soon as it is cold put it in small bottles, corking them tightly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 391. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 pint of water into a copper stewpan, and dissolve lib. of loaf sugar in it ; then add joz. of Cochineal and loz. of salts of wormwood, both crushed fine in a mortar, and boil for ten minutes, stirring in with a wooden spoon loz. of cream of tartar and joz. of alum

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.