The National tribune., 1906-02-15
INFORMATION BUREAU.
Recipe for Making Paste.


| lish recipe for making paste such as
| is used in printing offices for paSting
wrappers on papers. Also, one for
| photographers paste.-C. w. Jackson
Pulaski, n. Y.
1. Take a quart of water and dissolve
in it a teaspoonful of pure powdered
alum. Stir into this enough of flour to
make a thick cream. Break up every
| little lump of -four until the mixture is
smooth. Stir in next a teaspoonful OF
powdered resin. Now pour in cup
full of boiling water. Stir it all well.
When the mixture has thickened from
cooking by the boiling water, pour into
an earthen vessel. Cover it up and
keep it in a cool place. Add few
drops of oil of cloves Whenever you
want to use any portion of it, take what
you need and soften it with a little
warm water.
This will give you a perfect paste,
clean, wholesome and lasting. You will
be surprised how little waste you will
have. Should you need larger quanti-
ties. increase the proportions in prop
er ratio, doubling or trebling each in
gredient, according to the magnitude
of the business requiring it.
.. The following from Dingler's
Journal is highly recommended: Let
four parts by weight of glue soften in
Is parts cold water for Is hours, after
Wnlcn the mixture Is nedltu ulill CledL
Add SIS parts boiling water. In another
vessel stir 80 parts starch paste in 20
parts water. Into this the glue solu-
tion is poured. Stir well, and on cool
ing add 10 drops carbolic acid.
8. Paste for paper hanging.-Take one
half quartern of flour Chest biscuit) and
put it into a pail, with small portion
of alum. broken up small: mix it up
into stiff batter with warm water;
have ready a large saucepan of boiling
water, and pour it over the paste. stir
ring we'll all the time, or it will be
lumpy. If properly done, it will thick
en- as the boiling water is poured over
it: if it does not thicken, set it over
the fire a few minutes, but be sure you
stir it, or it will burn. When well
thickened throw a dash of cold water
over it, as it prevents it skinning while
cooking Use rather thin. You can
thin 1t with cold water
+. Mix one pound of rye flour in luke
warm water to which has been added
one teaspoonful of pulveriZed alum;
stir until free of Jumps. Boil in the
regular way or slowly pour on boiling
water. stirring all the time. until the
paste becomes stiff. When cold add a
full quarter of a pound of common
strained honey, mix well Irregular bee
honey, no patent miXture). In label
ing always paste the tin Cor other
WORK. and apply the lapel
For Photographers Paste.-In the
Photographic Times Mr.. w. II. Gardi-
ner collects together a number of
fCrmulae of various mountains, of
which we give the following:
1. Gelatine mountant-Cooking gela-
tine one ounce; alcohol, 30 per cent,
10 ounces: glycerine, one-half to one
ounce.
Soak geIatine in cold water for an
all the water which will go, add to alco-
hol in wide mouthed bottle. Add one
half to one ounce glycerine, according
as gelatine is of a hard or soft kind.
Put bottle in hot water, with occasional
shaking. until gelatine is quite dis
solved VIII keep indefinitely. and has
only to be heated when wanted for use.
= Nelson's No. 1 Photographic gela-
tine. four ounces; water, 16 ounces; gly-
cerine one ounce; alcohol, five ounces.
Dissolve the gelatine in the water,
then add the glycerine, and lastly the
alcohol.
3. Permanent paste-Arrowroot, 10
parts: water, 100 parts; Selatine, one
Part; alcohol. 10 parts.
Soak the gelatine in the water. add
the arrowroot. which has first been
thoroughly mixed with a small quantity
of the water, and boil four or five min
utes After cooling add the alcohol
ana Il 1eW drops OI CdTNOllS dSlu VI OA
OF cloves.
A. Another-Best Bermuda arrow
root. one and three-quarter ounces;
sheet gelatine or best Russian glue. so
grains; water, Is ounces; methylated
spirit. one ounce.
Put the arrowrOot into small pan.
add one ounce of water and mix 1t thor
oughlv with spoon, or the ordi-
nary mounting brush, until it is like
thick cream; then add Il ounces water
and the gelatine broken into small
fragments Boil for four or five min
utes, set it aside until partially cold,
then add the methylated spirit and six
drops of pure carbolic acid. Be very
particular to add the spirit in gentle
stirring rapidly all the time.
Keep it in a corked stock bottle and
take out as much as may be required
for the time and work it up nicely with
the brush.