To Take Off Freckles
From Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide, 1882
Serves 1
Presented as published in 1882. 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 Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 131. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
alum i ounce, with water enough to cover the goods. Boil i hour. Take out and rinse. Throw away the coloring water and put in clean water, and 2^ pounds of logwood chips sewed up in a cloth, and boil i hour. Then the wool is put in and boiled i hour. Then remove, air, wash clean and dry. GREEN ON WOOL OR SILK. Prussic acid 3 ounces, sulphuric acid one-half ounce, to every pail of water and pound of goods. Then add the carmine of indigo (imported) suf- ficient to make any shade of green desired. For silk add a little alum. PINK ON SILK. Brazil wood 2 ounces, muriate of tin i ounce, water i gallon. Add gentle heat and handle or stir the goods all the while. When the desired shade is reached take out, wash in clean water, . MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION. 369 and rinse in soap-suds. This will give the desired blue tinge. YELLOW FOR CARPET RAGS. To every 3 pounds of rags or cloth, sugar of lead 6 ounces, dissolved in hot water in a brass kettle ; 3 ounces bichromate of potash, dissolved in a cup of cold water. Have just water enough in each case to cover the rags. Dip into the lead water, then wring out dry each change that is made, then into the potash, and continue the process un- til the color suits. It takes very quick. ORANGE. Dip these yellow rags in lime water hot, and wring and rinse. Gives a very pretty orange. GREEN. The yellow rags dipped into the blue die makes a beautiful green. Of course the blue must be quite hot. BLUE. Three pounds of rags will take copperas 3 ounces, with water sufficient to cover the rags, in an iron kettle. Boil half an hour. Then in a brass kettle put prussiate of potash 2 ounces. After the pot- ash is dissolved add oil of vitriol I ounce, and dip the rags in this with heat. HULLED CORN. Take white ley or lye, and boil the quantity of corn desired until the hull will come off by wash- ing. Then boil until perfectly cooked, and then 370 DOMESTIC GUIDE. take off and wash thoroughly in clean water, and it is then ready for use. FRIED HOMINY. Boiled hominy, add salt, butter and cream to suit. One or two eggs is also added to make it rich. Cut in slices and fry on a griddle. TO TAKE OFF FRECKLES. Rose water i pint
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