Recipes: Congealing Glue, Coating Seeds, and Distilling Vinegar
Three craft-and-alchemy notes on congelation, dyed seed husks, and a 'resolutive water'
This page gathers three practical recipes. The first tells how to congeal a fine mixture by warming glue over a slow fire, leaving the surface bubbles alone, then letting it set, cutting the bubbles, and coating them with the congelation. The second says that ears of any seed, first dyed in various colors and then clothed in a husk and set to congeal, will bear good fruit. The third distills vinegar and passes it through its own freshly burnt and calcined lees, or through calcined tartar, then redistills to make a 'resolutive water'.
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Congealing glue and distilling a resolutive water
To congeal a fine mixture, heat glue over a slow fire, leave the little surface bubbles undisturbed, let it set, then cut them and clothe them with the congelation. Separately, distill vinegar and pass the distillate through its own calcined lees or through calcined tartar, then redistill and re-calcine to obtain a resolutive water.
Dyed seed-ears clothed in husk to bear good fruit
Ears of any seed, first dyed in various colors and then clothed in a husk, are set into congelation and, the note claims, will bear good fruit. The recipe treats germination and the sowing of colored, coated seed as a curiosity to be tested.