Dry Ink for Travel

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Take good green gallnuts and grind them finely like kohl. Grind Gum Arabic like it. Then take half its weight of vitriol and grind it as well. Combine the whole with egg whites or two eggs until it becomes like dough. Form it into balls and store it in a narrow-necked vessel.

Original Recipe Text

Take good green gallnuts and grind them finely like kohl. Grind Gum Arabic like it. Then take half its weight of vitriol and grind it as well. Combine the whole with egg whites or two eggs until it becomes like dough. Form it into balls and store it in a narrow-necked vessel.
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