Huile antique rouge a la rose is the ordinary oil of roses coloured with alkanet root.
Wax tinged with alkanet root, and applied to the marble hot enough to melt it freely.
Simmer the Pomatum and Alkanet together, stirring the mixture with a wooden spatula, till the Pomatum is sufficiently tinged; then strain it from the Roots, and set it by for use.
Take three ounces of Oil of Almonds, three quarters of an ounce of Spermaceti, and a quarter of an ounce of Virgin's Wax; melt them together over a slow fire, mixing with them a little of the powder of Alkanet Root.
Or, Take an ounce of Oil of Sweet Almonds cold drawn, a drachm of fresh Mutton Suet, and a little bruised Alkanet Root; simmer the whole together.
Alkanet Root strikes a beautiful red when mixed with Oils or Pomatums.
Red Pomatum Is made by adding to the above more or lessAlkanet Root bruised, according to the depth of colour you would wish to impart.
The Alkanet is an erect, hairy plant, which is not quite so bristly as its cousin, the Common Borage.
On removing from the fire, add three or four small pieces of alkanet root, and keep the vessel closely covered for several hours.
Take a pound of fresh butter; a quarter of a pound of beeswax; four or five ounces of cleansed black grapes, and about an ounce of bruisedalkanet root.
The oil coloured before scenting, by steeping in it one drachm of alkanet root, with a gentle heat, until the desired tint is produced.
It may be coloured red by steeping a little alkanet root in the oil (with heat) before scenting it.
Both the above articles are sold either white or colored withalkanet root.
Color the grease very strongly with alkanet root, then proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.
One species, though generally known as the Common Alkanet (Anchusa officinalis), is really a rare plant, occurring only as an escape from cultivation in the neighbourhood of towns and villages.
This is made by boiling castor oil, scenting it with oil of roses, and coloring it, while warm, with alkanet root.
To give the cream a fine pink color, tie up some alkanet chips in a thin muslin bag; lay the bag to infuse in a tea-cup of plain cream, and then add the pink infusion to the quart of cream as you froth it.
Put the alkanetinto the mixture, and let it infuse in the boiling drawn butter.
Alkanet produces a much finer color than cochineal, but it must unite with some substance of an oily nature to give out its color to advantage.
You may color almond or vanilla blancmange a fine pink, by putting into the cream chips of alkanet root tied in a small thin muslin bag, to be removed as soon as the cream is highly colored.
Take a few chips of red alkanet root, (to be had at the druggist's.
Alkanet communicates a beautiful pink color, and has no taste in itself.
When done, take out the bag, and stir the alkanet color evenly through the sauce.
You may give it a fine red colouring by putting in, after the marrow has melted, some chips of alkanet tied in a very thin muslin bag, letting it remain till the tint is thoroughly infused.
Alkanet is to be bought at the druggists, is very cheap, perfectly innoxious, and is now much used for colouring confectionary.
Take half an ounce of chippings of alkanet root, which may be bought at a druggist's, for a few cents.
Then put in, as a colouring, some small bits of alkanet tied in a thin muslin bag.
Alkanet is now much used for giving a beautiful red colour to confectionary.
Tie up some of the alkanet chips, in a bit of very thin, clean muslin, like a small bag, and let it infuse with the mixture you wish to colour.
Then add half a pint of spirits of wine, that has been coloured red, by infusing in it some alkanet root, tied up in a thin muslin bag.
Or boil in the milk a very small muslin bag with alkanet tied up in it.
Then add a small thin bag of alkanet chips; and when it has coloured the mixture of a fine deep red, take it out.
The price of alkanet does not exceed six cents per ounce; and an ounce will do a great deal of colouring.
To colour it of a beautiful pink, tie up a little alkanet in a thin muslin bag, and let it infuse in the icing after it is made, squeezing the bag occasionally.
Olive oil one pound, attar of roses fifty drops, oil of rosemary twenty-five drops; mix, and color it with alkanet root.
Logwood violet is browned; that of orchil, if slightly reddish, is turned to a blue-violet; that of alkanet is modified to a fine blue.
Hydrochloric acid, whether dilute or concentrated, is without action on alkanet violet.
Cochineal is turned by the potassa to a violet-red, orchil to a violet-blue, and alkanet to a decided blue.
Alkanet root in raw linseed oil will give a warm and mellow hue to mahogany or cherry.
Put one ounce of castor oil in one pint of bay rum or alcohol, and color it with a little of the tincture of alkanet root.
If required red, color with alkanet root, and strain before adding the otto.
It may be colored by steeping a little alkanet root in the oil (by heat) before scenting it.
Take of linseed oil, one gallon; alkanet root, three ounces; rose pink, one ounce.
Take out the alkanet root, and put in two pennyworth of essence of lemon, and a few drops of bergamot.
Put into a pint of cold-drawn linseed oil, four pennyworth of alkanet root, and two pennyworth of rose pink.
Then put in a pennyworth of alkanetroot tied up in a rag, with the jar closed, and boil it till it becomes red.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alkanet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
