Text 21810, 81 rader
Skriven 2012-02-28 07:01:55 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
  Kommentar till text 21722 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: LETTERS
===============
-=> JIM WELLER wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 -=> Quoting Dave Drum to Glen Jamieson <=-

 DD> Having used quills to write things (as a re-enactment exercise)

 JW> The last time I did that was as an experiment in public school.
 JW> Neekha and I once planned on doing that with a raven's feather but
 JW> never got around to it. We would have had to make our own ink too.

Ink is easy ... mostly. Permanent ink is a bitch-kitty, though. 
 
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Home Made Ink
 Categories: Non-food, Eggs, Five
      Yield: 1 /2 cup

      2 lg Egg yolks
      2 ts Gum arabic
      1 c  Honey
      1 ts Lamp black
           Mixing bowl
           Water

  Gather together the materials you will need to make black
  ink . Lamp black, probably the most foreign of all the
  materials can be bought in tubes at specialty stores. You
  can also make your own by holding a plate over an open
  flame (like that on a candle). The black substance that
  forms is lamp black. *

  Mix together the egg yolk, honey and gum arabic in a bowl.
  This should form a liquid mixture that has a hint of
  thickness to it.

  Take your lamp black and add it to the mixture. As you mix
  this in with the rest of the ingredients you will notice
  the entire mixture getting very thick and changing color
  to a very deep black. Store this mixture somewhere out of
  the way until you need ink.

  When you need ink, take some of the mixture you created
  and water to it. When water is mixed in, the solution will
  become the liquid ink that you can easily use for whatever
  purpose you might need.

  * Lamp black is easy. It's just soot. But, I don't
  remember the last time I saw gum arabic down the corner
  store. -- UDD

  From: http://www.ehow.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Berry Ink
 Categories: Five, Fruits
      Yield: 1 /2 cup

    1/2 c  Berries
    1/2 ts Vinegar
    1/2 ts Salt

  Use fresh berries or thawed frozen berries; push them
  through a strainer so that you get pulp-free juice. Add
  1/2 teaspoon of vinegar (to hold color) and 1/2 teaspoon
  salt (as a preservative) and mix well. You can use a glass
  baby food jar as your "inkwell", if you have one.

  From: http://www.hometrainingtools.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM

... Life is a fatal complaint and an eminently contagious one. Oliver W. Holmes
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49
 * Origin: Outpost BBS / Johnson City, TN / outpost.slyip.net (1:18/200)