Ingredients
- a piece of alum the size of a cherry stone
Directions
1
Take twenty grains of cochineal, and fifteen grains of cream of tartar finely powdered; add to them a piece of alum the size of a cherry stone, and boil them with a jill of soft water, in an earthen vessel, slowly, for half an hour. Then strain it through muslin, and keep it tightly-corked in a phial.
By Eliza Leslie ·
Recipe sourced from
gutenberg