1876 Bar-Tender's Guide by Jerry Thomas

COLOR, GREE2^.

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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 boiler on a smart fii-e, and stn tlie 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 6^ gallons of boiling -waXer—atfirst, 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, Bl-ae. Take 3 ounces ofsulphuric acid (smoking) and put it m a one-gallon glassjar; add,in very small portions,1 oimco 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 ftir several days, and then add,very slowly, 3 quarts of water; after which add, in small quantities,i 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 1^ pint of alcohol with it, and bottle for

use.

90. Color, G-reen.

By mixing the tincture of safi"ron and the tincture ofin digo together in different proportions, you can obtain any shade ofgreen you desire. For a light-green, increase the saftron; for a dark-green increase the indigo. 6*