Twentieth century home cook book

To color 3'ellow : Take eight ounces sugar of lead, four ounces bichromate potash. Dissolve the sugar of lead in hot water, in a jar. Dip the goods in the sugar of lead first, and then in the potash, alternately, till you have the color desired. This will color six pounds. Yellow and Blue.^For each pound of cotton rags, take one ounce of sugar of lead, dissolve in warm water, put in a bi'ass or copper kettle. Heat it to a scalding heat and put in the rags. Let them remain in half an hour; then dissolve one ounce of bichromate potash in warm water in a wooden dish. Take the rags out, dip in the potash, wring out and air. Repeat until you use the dye up. You will have a beautiful yellow. Be sure and use soft water. To color blue: to five pounds of cotton rags take five ounces prussiate of potash, five ounces copperas and two ounces oil vitriol. Take the copperas and potash, put in a copper or brass vessel, heat it till well dissolved. Put in the rags, and scald from eleven to thirty minutes. Take out and cool. Add oil vitrol, then dip and take out. Hang in the shade. You can take more white rags and make a pale blue by dipping in after this. Put your yellow rags in this same blue dye, and you will have a nice green. Hold some in your hand and put in the dye in places, and it will be clouded yellow and green. This must be in soft water, also. Then hang in the shade, and when dry, rinse in warm water. — Mes. J. N., Seward, 111. Green. — For five pounds of white cotton rags reeled in skeins, I take one pail of the inner bark of yellow oak, cut in fine chips, and boil it two hours in three pails of soft water, in cither tin, brass or copper. Then skim out the bark and add onefourth of an ounce of alum. While the dye is boiling, take three ounces of Prussian blue, tie it up in a strong cotton rag, and rub it in enough soft water to thoroughly wet the rags; squeeze and turn them in the blueing nearly half an hour. Wring them out and take as many as you can handle at one time and put them in the hot dye, stir them around a few seconds and take them out ; then put in more until you have them all green. Bo not leave them in the dye a minute for it will soak out the blue. The rags ma}- need to be dipped more than once. This color will not fade. If light green is desired, use less blue. — Mrs. A, G., Ontario, Ind. Green and Red. — To color carpet-rags green: to five pounds of cotton cloth, take one pound of fustic and four ounces of chip logwood ; soak in a brass kettle over night; heat the dye, then add two ounces of blue vitriol; wet the cloth in suds. When the dye is boiling hot put in the cloth. For coloring red, for five pounds of goods, take one pound of redwood, steep in cold water over niglit, then let it come to a boil, skim out the chips, wring out the goods in the dye, then add sufficient nuariate of tin to set the color; return the goods to the dye, let them remain until nearly colored deep enough; color in brass or tin. — Ella T. B., Groveport, O. Blue and Yellow. — I first color blue, then yellow. Take one ounce prussiate of potash, one tablespoon of copperas, one ounce oil of vitriol. Bring to a boil. Then put in the goods for twenty minutes, skimming often. This is sufficient for five pounds. To color yellow, dissolve one and a half pounds sugar of lead in hot water, one and a half ounces bichromate of potash, dissolved in a vessel of wood in cold water. Dip first in lead water, then in the potash, and alternate until the color suits. —Mrs. H. a. B., Pompeii, Mich. L^a^ nriTTAflH n-p FIVE ROOMS ON GROUND AND TWO IN ATTIC. — COST, $700. CHAPTER XXIV. MENU FOR ONE WEEK DURING THE FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR. SPRING. Breakfast . Strawberries and cream, broiled breakfast bacon, dry toast,