Common Red
From Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody (1880).
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From Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody (1880), printed page 599, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/100936766.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
- 3 lbs. of sumach
- 3 lbs. of limawood
- 1 lb. fustic
- 1 gill red spirits
Method
- Make a decoction of 3 lbs.
- of sumach, and put the goods in at once;
- let them steep over night;
- wring out and workfoi\an hour in a mixture of 1 gill red spirits (tin spirits) to every gallon of water;
- wring out and wash well;
- then work half an hour in a decoction of 3 lbs.
- of limawood, and 1 lb.
- fustic, using this decoction as hot as the hand can bear it ;
- lift and add 1 gill red spirits ;
- then work 15 minutes more;
- wash and dry.