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English cookbook, 1860
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Powder to clean plate eight drams of quick silver rub it in a morter with spirits of turpentine till the quick silver is dissolved then add eight ounces of prepared chalk by little quantities at a time and rub them all together - this is the receipe always used at Wathem Ink To three pints of spring water put 7 oz of sennel galls bruised let it stand 6 days in a warm place then add 3 oz of Copperas 2 oz of Gum arebic and 1/4 of an oz of Allum let it stand six days longer
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Powder to clean plate eight drams of quick silver rub it in a morter with spirits of turpentine till the quick silver is dissolved then add eight ounces of prepared chalk by little quantities at a time and rub them all together - this is the receipe always used at Wathem Ink To three pints of spring water put 7 oz of sennel galls bruised let it stand 6 days in a warm place then add 3 oz of Copperas 2 oz of Gum arebic and 1/4 of an oz of Allum let it stand six days longer
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