Cheap cotton cloth may be colored to advantage for
petticoats, and pelisses for little girls.
A very beautiful nankin color may likewise be obtained from
birch-bark, set with alum. The bark should be covered with water,
and boiled thoroughly in brass or tin. A bit of alum half as big as
a hen's egg is sufficient. If copperas be used instead of alum, slate
color will be produced.
Tea-grounds boiled in iron, and set with copperas, make a very good
slate color.
Log-wood and cider, in iron, set with copperas, makes a good black.
Rusty nails, or any rusty iron, boiled in vinegar, with a small bit of
copperas, makes a good black,--black ink-powder done in the same way
answers the same purpose.
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MEAT CORNED, OR SALTED, HAMS, &C.
When you merely want to corn meat, you have nothing to do but to rub
in salt plentifully, and let it set in the cellar a day or two. If you
have provided more meat than you can use while it is good, it is well
to corn it in season to save it. In summer, it will not keep well more
than a day and a half; if you are compelled to keep it longer, be sure
and rub in more salt, and keep it carefully covered from cellar-flies.
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