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Pea-green for Silk

From Consult me, 1902

Serves 1

The shade may be varied by adding more or less of the Picric Acid or extract of indigo.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 203. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ea-green, for Silk. — To 1 quart of water, put half a teaspoonful of Pic- ric Acid, and rather more than half a wine glassful of sulphuric acid, and a tea-spoonful of paste extract of indig

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