To Color Woolen Bottle-green
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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This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 371. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To color Woolen Bottle-green.—Boil ten pounds woolen with one-tenth pound chrome, one-fifth pound alum; take out, put in a vessel of clean water threa pounds fustic and one and a half pounds logwood, and boil another hour. To color Woolen Black.—For twenty-five pounds of goods, boil goods in a ‘solution of five-eighths pounds each bichromate of potash and blue vitriol, and one-half pound argol, one hour; take out, refill kettle with clean water, and add three pounds dissolved extract of logwood; putin goods and sime \ O26 MISCELLANEOUS, mer one hour and a half; take out, rinse, scour with soap, and dry. This makes a blue-black. To make a jet black, add three pounds fustic
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