To Make Ink

Title: To Make Ink
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A method for making ink by steeping galls and iron sulfate in gum arabic, made shiny by the addition of sugar and sack wine.
Transcript: Rx one galloun of small Beare or raine water in a Tub or Earthen pot to that add a pound of Gaules broken to peces next day put in half a pound of grene coppras and the day after that put in half a pound of Gum Arabeck stir it very often & in a weke you may use it but the older the beter & if you would have it shine put to this a pinte of Malagoe Sack and half a pound of loafe sugr
Subject: See all items with this value beers; See all items with this value rainwater; See all items with this value gall; See all items with this value green copperas (iron(II) sulfate); See all items with this value gum arabic; See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value sack
Contributor: Abu-Bader Nagham; Le, Vincent; Thibodeau, Gavin; Grimm, Stephanie
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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