A Cheap Method
From Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1830).
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From Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1830), printed page 54, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21530518
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Ingredients
- one Ounce and a half
- a pint of small beer
- a pound of ivory-black
- a pound of moist sugar
- a quart of water
Method
- Ivory black, two ounces ;
- brown sugar, one Ounce and a half ;
- and sweet oil, half a table spoonful.
- Mix them well, and then gradually add half a pint of small beer.
- A quarter of a pound of ivory-black, a quarter of a pound of moist sugar, a table-spoonful of flour, a piece of tallow about the size of a walnut, and a small piece of gum-arabic.
- Make a paste of the flour, and whilst hot, put in the tallow', then the sugar, and afterwards mix the whole well together in a quart of water.