To Color Cotton Green
From Twentieth century home cook book, 1905
Serves 1
Use less blue for a lighter green.
Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 183. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To color cotton green: First color blue, and then put them in a yellow dye. To color blue : For four pounds one ounce prussiatc potash, one ounce copperas, one ounce of alum. Dissolve the alum and copperas in water enough to wet the goods. Then jiut them in the potash, and let them remain ten minutes ; then put in the copperas and alum. Let the dye be hot. To color 3'ellow : Take eight ounces sugar of lead, four ounces bichromate potash. Dissolve the sugar of lead in hot water, in a jar. Dip the goods in the sugar of lead first, and then in the potash, alternately, till j^ou have the color desired. This will color six pounds. Yellow and Blue.^For each pound of cotton rags, take one ounce of sugar of lead, dissolve in warm water, put in a bi'ass or copper kettle. Heat it to a scalding heat and put in the rags. Let them remain in half an hour; then dissolve one ounce of bichromate potash in warm water in a wooden dish. Take the rags out, dip in the potash, wring out and air. Eepeat until you use the dye up. You will have a beau- tiful yellow. Be sure and use soft water. To color blue: to five pounds of cotton rags take five ounces prussiate of potash, five ounces copperas and two ounces oil vitrol. Take the copperas and potash, put in a copper or brass vessel, heat it till well dissolved. Put in the rags, and scald from eleven to thirty minutes. Take out and cool. Add oil vitrol, then dip and take out. Hang in the shade. You can take more white rags and make a pale blue by dippino' in after this. Put your yellow rags in this same blue dye, and you will have a nice green. Hold some in your hand and put in the dye in places, and it will be clouded yellow and green. This must be in soft water, also. Then hang in the shade, and when dry, rinse in warm water. — Mes. J. N., Seward, 111. Green. — For five pounds of white cotton rags reeled in skeins, I take one pail of the inner bark of yellow oak, cut in fine chips, and boil it two hours in three pails of soft water, in cither tin, brass or copper. Then skim out the bark and add one- fourth of an ounce of alum. While the dye is boiling, take three ounces of Prussian blue
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