1895 American Bar-Tender by R. C. Miller

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1. Coloring. Take 100 lbs. of white sugar, and mix with it three gallons of water, in a copper or iron boiler of fifty Gal lons capacity. It is necessary to have the boiler this size, as in manufacturing coloring the liquid 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 boil ing until it gets as black as tar when dropped on a cold stone. Then add slowly six and one-quarter gal lons of boiling water—ai" Jrs/, only a liiile at a time, and increasing the quantity gradually—constantly stir ring as the whole is dissolved. Pass it through a flan nel. 2. Color, Blue. Take 3 ounces of sulphuric acid (smoking) and put it in a one-gallon glass jar; add, in very small portions, I ounce of the finest powdered indigo, being very care ful 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 continue stirring it aslong as a froth rises from the mixture. After having done this, let it stand for 24 hours, then decant, filter, mix pint of alcohol with it, and bottle for use. 3. Color,Green. By mixing the tincture of saffron and the tincture o-f indigo together in different proportions, you can ob tain any shade of green you desire. For a light green, increase the saffron; fora dark green increase the indigo.

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