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To Color Cordials
through, fill up the filter again so as to keep it full. When the liquid runs clear and limpid let it all run through, and commence filtering the cordial, being careful to keep the filter always full. If the liquor does not run clear, add about two ounces of granulated animal charcoal (sifted and fanned from the dust), to each filter. The charcoal should be washed with a little muriatic acid before being used.
To Color Cordials.
Blue, use indigo dissolved in sulphuric acid :
Green, mix the above solution with infusion of saffron : Yellow, use infusion of saffron :
Red, rose, or different shades of red, by alcoholic infusion of cochineal. Take 1 lb. cochineal, „ Cochineal.
Roche alum.
Reduce them both to powder in a mortar, and pour on them 16 lbs. of boiling water. The result is a red of greater or less strength according to the amount of cochineal used.
Wild Red Poppy.
This is a very fine color.
Take two pounds of the leaves, bruise them in a mortar; then pour over them one gallon of boiling water, adding one drachm of tartaric acid to facilitate and quicken the extraction of the color.