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To Color Wool Goods Black

From The national course in home economics, 1917

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1917. 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 The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 358. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TO COLOR WOOL GOODS BLACK. To five pounds of goods take six ounces of blue'vitriol; boil the vitriol five minutes, then dip the goods for three-quarters of an hour, airing it now and then. Make a dye with three pounds of logwood

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