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

Editor National Tribune: Please pub
ish a 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.
/. 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 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 1T in a cool place. Add few
drops of Oil of cloves. Whenever you
want to use any portion of 1T, 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
err ratio, doubling or trebling each in
gredient, according to the magnitude
of the business requiring it.
2. The following from Dinglers
Journal is highly recommended: Let
four parts by weight of glue soften in
Is parts cold water for Is hours, after
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Add SIS parts boiling water. In another
vessel stir 80 parts starch paste in 20
parts water Into this the glue solu-
ton is poured. Stir well. and on COOL
ing add 10 drops carbolic acid.
g. Paste for paper hangtng.-Take one
half quartern of flour Chest biscuiD and
put it into pail with small portion
of alum. broken up small: mix 1t up
into stiff batter with warm water;
have ready a large saucepan OF boiling
water, and pour it over the paste. stir
ring well 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 1T over
the fire a few minutes, but be sure you
stir it. or it will burn. When well
thickened, throw dash of cold water
over it, as it prevents it skinning while
cooking Use rather thin. You can
thin 1t with cold water.
f. Mix one pound of rye flour in luke
warm water to which has been added
one teaspoonfuI of pulverized alum;
stir until free of Jumps. Boil in the
regular way or slowly pour on boiling
paste becomes stiff. When cold add
full quarter of 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 label.
Photographic Times Mr.. w. II. Gardi-
ner collects together a number of
formulate of various mountains, of
which we give the following:
l. Gelatine Misunderstanding gela-
tine. one ounce; alcohol, So per cent.
10 ounces: glycerine. one-half to one
ounce.
Soak gelatine i'm cold water for an
hour or more, take out and drain off
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 hard or soft KIND:
Put bottle in hot water, with occasional
shaking, until gelatine is quite dis
solved Will keep indefinitely. and has
only to be heated when wanted for use.
2. Nelson's No 1 Photographic gela-
tine four ounces: water 10 ounces, gly-
cerine. one ounce; aicohol. hve ounces.
Dissolve the gelatine in the water,
then add the glycerine, and lastly the
alcohol.
8. Permanent paste-Arrowroot, 10
parts: water, 100 parts; gelatine, 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
and few drops of carbolic acid or oil
OIL cloves.
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
oughly with a spoon, or the ordi-
nary mounting brush, until it is like
thick cream; then add IA 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 a gentle
stream, stirring rapidly all the time.
Keep it in corked stock bottle and
take out as much as may be required
for the time and work it up nicely with
the brush.