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with ammonia. Or use solution of ten grains of cyanide of potassium and five
grains of iodine to one ounce of water, or a solution of eight parts each
bichloride of mercury and chloride of ammonium in one hundred and twenty-five
parts of water.
A CEMENT FOR ACIDS.
A cement which is proof against boiling acids may be made by a composition of
India rubber, tallow, lime and red lead. The India rubber must first be melted
by a gentle heat, and then six to eight per cent. by weight of tallow is added
to the mixture while it is kept well-stirred; next day slaked lime is applied,
until the fluid mass assumes a consistency similar to that of soft paste;
lastly, twenty per cent. of red lead is added, in order to make it harden and
dry.
TO KEEP CIDER.
Allow three-fourths of a pound of sugar to the gallon, the whites of six eggs,
well beaten, a handful of common salt. Leave it open until fermentation ceases,
then bung up. This process a dealer in cider has used for years, and always
successfully.
Another recipe:--To keep cider sweet allow it to work until it has reached the
state most desirable to the taste, and then add one and a half tumblers of
grated horse-radish to each barrel, and shake up well. This arrests further
fermentation. After remaining a few weeks, rack off and bung up closely in clean
casks.
A gentleman of Denver writes he has a sure preservative: Put eight gallons of
cider at a time into a clean barrel; take one ounce of powdered charcoal; and
one ounce of powdered sulphur; mix, and put it into some iron vessel that will
go down through the bung-hole of the barrel. Now put a piece of red-hot iron
into the charcoal and sulphur, and while it is burning, lower it through the
bung-hole to within one foot of the cider, and suspend it there by a piece of
wire. Bring it up and in twelve hours you can cure another batch. Put the cider
in a tight barrel and keep in a cool cellar and it will keep for years.
A Holland recipe:--To one quart of new milk, fresh from the cow (not strained),
add one-half pound of ground black mustard seed and six eggs. Beat the whole
well together, and pour into a barrel of cider. It will keep cider sweet for one
year or more.
TO BLEACH COTTON CLOTH.
Take one large spoonful of sal soda and one pound of chloride lime for thirty
yards; dissolve in clean, soft water; rinse the cloth thoroughly in cold,
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