Ingredients
- 5 pints water
- 10 quarts purple thickening
- 8-1/2 lbs
- 10 per cent
- 9-1/2 lbs
- 3-1/2 lbs
- 2 lbs
- 3 lbs
Directions
1
8-1/2 lbs. alizarin paste (10 per cent.); 9-1/2 lbs. acetic acid, at 12° Tw.; 3-1/2 lbs. wheat flour; 5 pints water.
2
Boil well and stir till cold; then add--
3
1 lb. acetate of lime, at 29° Tw.; 2 lbs. nitrate of alumina, at 23° Tw.; 3 lbs. hyposulphite of lime, at 13° Tw.
4
3 lbs. alizarin paste (10 per cent.); 10 quarts purple thickening; 6 oz. pyrolignite of lime, at 18° Tw.; 12 oz. acetate of lime, at 25° Tw.
5
The printed goods are steamed for an hour or two, and then aged from twenty-four to thirty-six hours. They are then padded in the chalk and arseniate of soda bath; after which they are washed and soaped in a single soap-bath without tin crystals; and, if needful, cleaned in a weak solution of bleaching powder.
Recipe sourced from
gutenberg