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Durrell Stables Survayer of the Meltings Gold Pot Book, April 25, 1814

Piece 2

the late Captn A's own for Blacking
Take three quarts, bar[?] measure, of new milk and in it boil for about an hour 2 oz of the best Campeachy logwood, chipped very thin across the grain, adding, from time to time, boiling milk to supply loss by evaporation; strain the liquor while hot and suffer it to cool. If the liquor be found short of three quarts make it equal to that quantity by the addition of more hot milk; then add 8 oz of the best blue gall nuts, bruised, and 5 oz of sulphate of Iron./green vitriol/, finely powdered, let these Ingredients stand a week stirring them three or four times a day; then strain off the liquor. Dissolve 3 oz of gum arabic in a pint of soft water which add to the above with 3 oz of coarse brown sugar and 1/2 oz of alum which last dissolve also in a little water before it is added to the liquor.

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the late Captn A's own for Blacking Take three quarts, bar[?] measure, of new milk and in it boil for about an hour 2 oz of the best Campeachy logwood, chipped very thin across the grain, adding, from time to time, boiling milk to supply loss by evaporation; strain the liquor while hot and suffer it to cool. If the liquor be found short of three quarts make it equal to that quantity by the addition of more hot milk; then add 8 oz of the best blue gall nuts, bruised, and 5 oz of sulphate of Iron./green vitriol/, finely powdered, let these Ingredients stand a week stirring them three or four times a day; then strain off the liquor. Dissolve 3 oz of gum arabic in a pint of soft water which add to the above with 3 oz of coarse brown sugar and 1/2 oz of alum which last dissolve also in a little water before it is added to the liquor.