Persian Ink

Ingredients

date stones, clay of wisdom, gum arabic water

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

Take date stones that have ripened in the palm, then place them in a jar as much as you want of them, and cover the jar with the clay of wisdom and let it stay on it until the clay dries. If its clay dries, leave it until it dries slightly. Then if you wish, light the thick wood from morning until night, and if you wish, enter it into the blacksmith's furnace. If you take it out of the fire, leave it until it cools and take out what is in it for it will come out black like charcoal then grind it in a mortar and moisten it with gum arabic water until it breaks up then make it into tablets according to the measure you want, God the Exalted willing.

Remarks

The recipe uses date stones and the clay of wisdom. The clay of wisdom is made by taking a part of free clay, a third part of fine straw. The clay is ground and soaked in water until it softens, and it is mixed with the straw and a tenth part of salt and ten parts of marshmallow and ten parts of hair, and it is left for days and nights until it ferments and then it is worked with.