A New Collection of Genuine Receipts

A New England receipt book from the 1830s — cures, dyes, inks and kitchen secrets, preserved exactly as printed.

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To dye or colour horse hair

Steep in water wherein a small quantity of turpentine has been boiled for the space of two hours; then having prepared the colous very hot, boil the hair therein, and any colour, black excepted, will take, but that will only take a dark red or dark blue, &c.

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