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Lime and Sulphur Dip

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Lime and Sulphur Dip

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slake the lime with enough water to make a thin paste.

  2. Stir in the sulphur.

  3. Boil the mixture with 25 to 30 gallons of water for two hours.

  4. Pour the liquid into a vessel and allow the sediment to settle.

  5. Draw off the liquid into the dipping vat without disturbing the sediment.

  6. Add water to make a total of 100 gallons.

  7. Use the preparation while warm.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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