1864 Bar Tender's Guide price $2 00 by Jerry Thomas

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COLOR, GREEN-

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88. Coloring.

Take 100 lbs. of white sugar, and mix with it 3 gallons of water,in a copper or iron boiler of 50 gallons capacity. It is necessary to have the boiler this size, as in manufac turing coloring the liquid is apt to run over when made in a smaller vessel. Put the boUer 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 acid slowly 6^ gallons of boiling "water—atfirsts only a little at a time^ and increas ing the quantity gradually—constantly stirring as the whole is dissolved. Pass it through a flannel. 89. Color, Blue. Take 3 ounces ofsulphuric acid (smoking)and put it in a one-gallon glass jar; 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 warm 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 from the mixture. After having done this, let it stand for 24 hours, then de cant,filter, mix pint of alcohol with it, and bottle for 90. Color, G-reen, By mixing the tincture ofsaffron and the tincture of in digo together in different proportions, you can obtain any shade ofgreen you desire. For a Hght-grecn, increase the saffron; for a dark-green increase the indigo. 6* ' •use.