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To color Woolen-yarn Scarlet

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 Woolen-yarn Scarlet.—Boil eight pounds yarn one hour with one- half pound cochineal, two pounds of young fustic, seven-tenths pound of white or brown tartar, three-tenths of a quart of oxalic. muriate of tin

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