To color Ladies’ Cloth Purple
From Buckeye cookery, 1892
Serves 1
Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 372. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To color Ladies’ Cloth Purple.—For twenty-five yards goods, boil two and a haif hours with ten pounds of alum, two pounds of argol, and one-fourth of a quart nitrate of tin; wash well, and finish with seven and a half pounds logwood and one pound of peach wood
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