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A cheap method

From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829).

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From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829), printed page 31, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101091388.nlm.nih.gov

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Ivory-black, 2 ounces;
  2. brown sugar, one ounce and a half;
  3. and sweet oil, half a table-spoonful.
  4. Mix them well, and then gradually add half a pint of small beer.