1876 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon-Vivant's Companion 2$50 by Jerry Thomas

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88. Coloring.

Take 100 lbs. of white sngar, and mix with it 3 gallons of water,in a copper or iron boiler of 50 gallons capacity. It is necessary to have the boiler this size, as in m.annfao- turing coloring the liquid is apt to run over Avhen made m a smaller vessel. Put the boiler on a smart fire, and stir the sugar constantly, so as to prevent its bm-ning on the bottom. Keep it boiling until it gets as black as tar when dropped on a cold stone. Then add slowly 6^ gallons of boiling water—citjivst,only ci little at a time^ and increas- Big the quantity gradually—constantly stirring as the whole is dissolved. Pass it through a flannel. Take 3 ounces ofsulphuric acid (smoking) and put it m a one-gallon glassjar; add,in very small portions,1 ounce of the finest powdered indigo, being very carefid 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 con tinue stirring it as long as a froth rises from the mixture. After having done this, let it stand for 24 hours,then de cant, filter, mix 1^ pint of alcohol with it, and bottle for 90. Color, Green. By mixing the tincture of saffron and^the tincture of in digo together in different proportions, you can obtain any shade of green you desire. For a light-green, increase the saffron; for a dark-green increase the mdigo. 6* 89. Color, Blue. ose.