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season it with a little salt with toasted bread cut in squares
Lemon Flummery - Mrs [Swire?]
Pare the rinds of 4 lemons and squeese the juice into a basin throwing in the rinds but not the pips add half a pint of water cover them close & let them stand all night the next day strain it through a clean cloth and add one ounce of Isinglass put it into a pan with six eggs well beaten and 10 ounces of sugar, put your sauce pan on the fire & keep stirring one way till it becomes the consistance of cream & when it is new milk warm power it into your moulds
Mrs Belcumbe
To Make Black Paper for Drawing Patterns
A quarter of a pound of mutton suet one ounce of Bees wax, melt both together, put it in as much lamp black, as will colour it dark enough, then spread it over your paper with a spunge to hold it over the fire to make it smooth
To Marble Blue Paper - Mrs Belcumbe
Mix some burnt umber with water, take a pice of clean sponge dip it into the paint, & put it on your paper in unequal marks, do so till you think it dark enough, when it is dry mix some red paint & proceed in the same manner as before
Yellow Dye &c Mrs Sherrett
1 pennyworth of [turmeraic?] in a bag of muslin to 2 pints of water boil your articles in this with care to dye & rinses them thro cold allum water

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season it with a little salt with toasted bread cut in squares Lemon Flummery - Mrs [Swire?] Pare the rinds of 4 lemons and squeese the juice into a basin throwing in the rinds but not the pips add half a pint of water cover them close & let them stand all night the next day strain it through a clean cloth and add one ounce of Isinglass put it into a pan with six eggs well beaten and 10 ounces of sugar, put your sauce pan on the fire & keep stirring one way till it becomes the consistance of cream & when it is new milk warm power it into your moulds Mrs Belcumbe To Make Black Paper for Drawing Patterns A quarter of a pound of mutton suet one ounce of Bees wax, melt both together, put it in as much lamp black, as will colour it dark enough, then spread it over your paper with a spunge to hold it over the fire to make it smooth To Marble Blue Paper - Mrs Belcumbe Mix some burnt umber with water, take a pice of clean sponge dip it into the paint, & put it on your paper in unequal marks, do so till you think it dark enough, when it is dry mix some red paint & proceed in the same manner as before Yellow Dye &c Mrs Sherrett 1 pennyworth of [turmeraic?] in a bag of muslin to 2 pints of water boil your articles in this with care to dye & rinses them thro cold allum water