1862 Bar Tender's Guide price $1.50 by Jerry Thomas

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88. Coloring. Take 100lbs. of white sugar, and miv with it 3 gallons of water,in a copper or ii-on boUer of 50 gallons capacity. It is necessary to have the boiler this size, as in manufac turing coloring the liqiud is apt to run over when made in a smaller vessel. Put the boiler on a smart fire, and stir the sugar constantly, so as to prevent itS'burning on the bottom. Keep it boiling until it gets as black as tar when dropped on a cold stone. Then add slowly gallons of boiling water—atjirst.,only a little at a time^ and increas ing the quantity gi-adually—constantly stirring as the whole is dissolved. Pass it through a flannel. Take 3 ounces ofsulphuric acid (smoking)and put it in a one-gallon glassjar; add,in very small portions,1 ounce of the finest powdered indigo, being very careful to stir the ingredients constantly during the process of mixing them. Let the jar stand in a w.ai'm place for several days, and then add,very slowly,3 quarts of water; after which add, in small quantities, lb. of chalk powder, and con tinue stirring it as long as a froth rises fi'om the mixture. After having done this, let it stand for 24 hours, then de cant, filter, mix 1^ pint of alcohol with it, and bottle for 90. Color, G-reen. By mixing the tincture ofsaffron and the tincture ofin digo together in different proportions, you can obtain any shade ofgreen you desire. For a light-green, increase thg saffton; for a dark-green increase the indigo, 89. Color, Blue. use.

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