To Color Silk Royal-blue
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 Silk Royal-blue.—Take ten pounds of silk, make up a tub of nitrate of iron at six degrees, to which add one pint of good muriate of tin and four ounces of tartaric acid
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