Orange Dye

Ingredients

• five pounds of goods
• muriate of tin six tablespoonfuls
• argol four ounces
• one teacupful of madder
• about two ounces of cochineal

Method

1. 1

   Boil the dye and dip the goods for one hour.

2. 2

   Add madder and dip again for half an hour.

3. 3

   Cochineal can be used instead of madder for a brighter color.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 376. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

five pounds of goods, camwood one pound; boil it fifteen minutes ; then dip the goods three-fourths of an hour; take them out and add to the dye two and one-half pounds fustic; boil ten minutes, and dip the goods three-fourths of an hour ; then add blue vitriol one ounce, copperas four ounces ; dip again one-half hour. If not dark enough add more copperas. Another^ Method — Any Shade: — Boil the goods in a mordant of alum two parts, copperas three parts; then rinse them through a bath of madder. The tint depends upon the relative proportions of the copperas and alum ; 666 MISCELLANEO US. the more copperas, the darker the dye; joint weight of both should not be more than one-eighth of weight of goods.. Mixtures of reds and yellows with blues and blacks, or simple dyes, will make any shade. Orange: — For five pounds of goods, muriate of tin six tablespoonfuls, argol four ounces ; boil and dip one hour and add again to the dye one tea- cupful of madder

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