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Buff or Salmon Colour

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Buff or Salmon Colour

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub down the arnatto on a pewter plate.

  2. Boil the arnatto in a pail of water for 1 hour.

  3. Add potash and stir.

  4. Put in the lining and stir continuously for 5 to 6 minutes.

  5. Transfer to cold pump water and hang up without wringing.

  6. When almost dry, fold and mangle the articles.

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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