1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 134.

How to make tee- Cream. Take of new milk and cream each 2 quarts, 2 pounds pulverized sugar, and 12 eggs; dissolve the sugar in the miik, beat the eggs to a froth, and add to the whole ; strain, and bring to a scald, but be ^careful not to burn it; when cool, flavor with ex- tract of vanilla or oil of lemon. Pack the tin freezer in a deep tub, with broken ice and salt, whirl the freezer, and occasionally scrape down from the side what gathers on. The proportions are one quart of salt to everv pail of ice. How to make Japan Black Writing-ink. In 6 quarts of water boil 4 ounces of logwood in chips cut very thin across the grain. The boiling may be continued for nearly an hour, adding, from time to time, a little boiling water to compensate for waste by evaporation. Strain the liquor while hot, suifer it to cool, and make up the quantity equal to five quarts by the further addition of cold water. To this decoction put 1 pound of blue galls coarsely bruised, or 1| pounds of the best galls, in sorts, 4 ounces of sulphate of iron calcined to whiteness, \ ounce of acetate of copper, previously mixed with the decoction till it forms a smooth paste, 3 ounces of coarse sugar, and 6 ounces of gum Senegal or arable. These several ingredients may be intro- duced one after another, contrary to the advice of scmie, who recommend the gum, &c. to be added when the ink is nearly made. The composition No. 135.