Apricot Liyya

Recipe Details

Ingredients

yellow arsenic, gallnut water, gum water, indigo, leek water, water of garden cress, coriander

Preparation Steps

Take as much yellow arsenic as you wish. Grind it and beat it with gallnut water and gum water until its grinding is fine. Then dry it and take one-sixth of its weight in indigo. Grind them both with leek water, or water of garden cress, or coriander. Use it.

Original Recipe Text

Take as much yellow arsenic as you wish. Grind it and beat it with gallnut water and gum water until its grinding is fine. Then dry it and take one-sixth of its weight in indigo. Grind them both with leek water, or water of garden cress, or coriander. Use it.

Remarks

The resulting ink is described as 'apricot'.

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Colorapricot
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