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Cherry Red Boil an ounce of [cudbear?] in 3 half pints of water over a slow fire till reduced to a pint, then add an ounce of cream of tartar, & let them simmer again, when cold strain them with an ounce of spirits of wine. harmless Another Boil an ounce of cochineal in half a pint of water for a bove five minuets, then add half an ounce of cream of tartar, and the same quantity of pounded Alum boil the whole on a slow fire about as long again, in order to know if it is done, dip a little white writing paper into it, & if it shews the colour cleer it will do, take it off the fire & add two ounces of sugar, let it settle, strain it & put it into bottles well stopped. this will do for sugars & ices, a little cochineal dissolved in spirits of wine will give a transparent red for sugar, Rose pink vermilion woad, spanish red madder &c are used in colouring much in the same way as before directed, also Indian lake [arnetto?] saffron; archel, [aurifigmontum?] & yellow [masticot?]. By mixture you may produce any colour almost. most chemists are acquainted with the colours wanted therefore anything may be had of [them?]
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Cherry Red Boil an ounce of [cudbear?] in 3 half pints of water over a slow fire till reduced to a pint, then add an ounce of cream of tartar, & let them simmer again, when cold strain them with an ounce of spirits of wine. harmless Another Boil an ounce of cochineal in half a pint of water for a bove five minuets, then add half an ounce of cream of tartar, and the same quantity of pounded Alum boil the whole on a slow fire about as long again, in order to know if it is done, dip a little white writing paper into it, & if it shews the colour cleer it will do, take it off the fire & add two ounces of sugar, let it settle, strain it & put it into bottles well stopped. this will do for sugars & ices, a little cochineal dissolved in spirits of wine will give a transparent red for sugar, Rose pink vermilion woad, spanish red madder &c are used in colouring much in the same way as before directed, also Indian lake [arnetto?] saffron; archel, [aurifigmontum?] & yellow [masticot?]. By mixture you may produce any colour almost. most chemists are acquainted with the colours wanted therefore anything may be had of [them?]
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