To Color Cotton Blue

Ingredients

• ten pounds cotton
• two and a half pounds copperas
• fifteen to twenty gallons water
• one-half pound prussiate of potash
• one-half pound oil of vitriol

Method

1. 1

   Put ten pounds cotton, two and a half pounds copperas, in fifteen to twenty gallons water, and boil two hours; after boiling, take out, rinse in clear water, refill kettle with water, and add one-half pound prussiate of potash.

2. 2

   Boil goods in this half an hour, lift out goods, and slowly add one-half pound oil of vitriol; return goods, and boil half an hour.

3. 3

   Rinse in clear water and dry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 372. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To culor Cotton Blue.—Put ten pounds cotton, two and a half pounds cop- peras, in fifteen to twenty gallons water, and boil two hours; after boiling, take out, rinse in clear water, refill kettle with water, and add one-half pound prussiate of potash. Boil goods in this half an hour, lift out goods, and slowly add one-half pound oil of vitriol

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