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Imitation of Gold

From 1,000 (1857).

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From 1,000 (1857), printed page 1, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1000dollarsworth00bowm

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Take linseed oil 3 oz.
  2. tartar, 2 oz.
  3. yolk of eggs boiled hard and beaten, 2 oz.
  4. aloes, half an oz.
  5. saffron, 5 grs.
  6. tumeric 2 grs.
  7. Boil these together in an earthen vessel, and it makes a wash which, when applied to iron, looks like gold.
  8. If not thin enough, add more oil.