Excerpt from Twenty Ways to Make Money: A Valuable Collection of Rare and Practical Recipes
Boil 16 ounces of Logwood in three quarts of of rain water, to 3 pints then add 3 ounces of clean gum arabic and 5 ounces of alum (powder ed). B'hake till well dissolved. It would be well to strain through a Wire sieve.
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