Peacock Ink

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Preparation Steps

Take yellow myrobalan, soak it with its seeds and boil it. Take the pure Roman vitriol and boil it with some yellow myrobalan water, the weight of vitriol and half an *uqiyyah* of Gum Arabic. Write with it; it will turn out beautiful, God willing.

Original Recipe Text

Take yellow myrobalan, soak it with its seeds and boil it. Take the pure Roman vitriol and boil it with some yellow myrobalan water, the weight of vitriol and half an *uqiyyah* of Gum Arabic. Write with it; it will turn out beautiful, God willing.

Remarks

This recipe for peacock ink utilizes yellow myrobalan and Roman vitriol.

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