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A Crimson Stain

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the ground Brazil in 3 quarts of water for 1 hour.

  2. Add the cochineal and boil gently for another 30 minutes.

  3. For a scarlet tint, boil the saffron in 1 quart of water and apply before the red stain.

  4. Ensure the work is clean and made of air-wood or good sycamore without blemish.

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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