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Crimson Dye

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 377. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one pound cochineal paste, six ounces of dry cochineal, one pound of tartar, one pint of protochloride of tin

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