The British soldiers were placed in a similar situation as regards their red coats when after 1878 the azo scarlets put the cochineal bug out of business.
It is closely allied to the cochineal insect of Mexico, which gives a more brilliant dye, and has at the present day nearly superseded the native insect.
Like the cochinealinsect of Mexico, the female is very much larger than her mate, and it is only from her that the dye is procured.
THE Cochineal Insect is of the same genus as the scale insect on the vine, which looks like a little bit of wool attached to the branch, but which, when pressed, stains the fingers with a red liquid.
Like its relative the aphis of rose bushes (see wild roses), the cochineal fastens itself to a cactus plant by its sucking tube, to live on the juices.
The production of the true royal purple dye was a very costly affair, and therefore it was often imitated with a mixture of cochineal and indigo.
So much permanganate solution is then added that the cochineal extract shall be charged from its original colour to a pink of the faintest shade--almost yellow, in fact, but never reaching a full yellow.
He thinks the sophistication was probably effected by immersing the cochineal in sulphate of zinc, and then in an alkali, whereby the white pulverulent aspect of the genuine article was imparted, and the weight increased.
Half the sugar may be colored with cochineal to a delicate pink.
To make pink icing add a few drops prepared cochinealor strawberry syrup.
Pink horseradish is made by pouring a little cochineal over it and mixing well.
Sift out all the fine part of ½ pound granulated sugar; put the sugar on a piece of thick brown paper, drop a few drops of cochineal over the sugar and rub it with the hands till the sugar becomes a red color.
Take twenty grains of cochineal powder, twenty grains of cream of tartar, and twenty grains of powdered alum.
Mix some pounded cochinealwith the water, and boil with the fruit.
Silk may be dyed crimson, by steeping it in a solution of alum, and then dyeing it in the usual way in a cochineal bath.
The colour should be kept fine from the first, or the fruit will not afterwards gain it; and use as little of the cochineal as will serve, lest the syrup taste bitter.
Silk cannot be dyed a full scarlet; but a colour approaching to scarlet may be given to it, by first impregnating the stuff with murio-sulphate of tin, and afterwards dyeing it in equal parts of cochineal and quercitron bark.
For a beautiful Red, take fifteen grains of cochineal in the finest powder, and a dram and a half of cream of tartar.
It is the king of Spain alone who has the said cochineal sown and collected; and the merchants must buy it of his appointed officers, for it is merchandise of high price, and is esteemed as gold and silver.
A great quantity of cochineal is gathered in this country, which grows in the fields as peas do elsewhere.
The belief that the cochineal was the seed of a plant, was prevalent for a very long period after the conquest of Mexico.
A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.
They grow vines and sugar and cultivate the cochineal insect, which looks like a loathsome disease (as indeed it is) upon the swarth cactus or tunera which it feeds on.
And the islands have had commercial crisis after commercial crisis as wine rose in price and fell, as cochineal had its vain struggle with chemical dyes.
By combining various diazotised bases with these sulpho-acids, a splendid series of acid azo-dyes ranging in shade from bright orange to claret-red, and to scarlets rivalling cochineal in brilliancy were given to the tinctorial industry.
The form of the Cochineal is oval; it is about the size of a small pea, and has six legs armed with claws, and a trunk by which it sucks its nourishment.
A small quantity of cochineal is also raised, and in the district of Autlan de la Grana, plantations of the cacao-tree have been made.
The leaves of the nopal upon which the seed is deposited, must be kept free from all foreign substances, and, in the cochinealdistricts the Indian women constantly tend the plants, brushing them lightly with a squirrel's tail.
The cultivation of silk has been warmly urged by Don Lucas Alaman, as exceedingly suitable for the state of Oajaca, where, in the course of time, it may replace the cochineal whose product it is said is beginning to fail in that district.
The cochineal bug feeds only on the leaf of the opuntia.
From this restrictive law of exportation we of course except vainilla, cochineal and a few other minor articles.
In the neighborhood of Oajaca cochineal is sometimes produced; and on the low lands towards the western coast, cotton, rice, and small quantities of coffee and sugar are cultivated.
The plantations of the cochineal cactus are confined to the district of the Misteca, in the state of Oajaca and in the valley of Oajaca at Ocotlan.
The pulverized ingredients are brought into an enamelled vessel having a capacity of 12 quarts and thoroughly mixed, so that the cochineal is uniformly distributed in the mass.
Then add the tincture of cantharides and the perfumes, and color red with cochineal tincture or henna tincture.
Color the water with cochineal tincture or henna tincture.
When at last he was tired of laughing at the ridiculous picture, his foolish fancy took another turn and fixed itself again on old Bob and Aunt Rhinah in their rocking chairs, swathed in cochineal flannel.
He sent him enough cochineal flannel for his rheumatism to wrap him four-ply deep.
Melt the gelatine in a little water, and add it to the cherries, with enough cochineal to colour brightly.
Then add the purée of fruit, and a few drops of cochineal to colour it.
A little bruised cochineal boiled with the vinegar adds much to the appearance of this pickle.
To improve the colour of the fruit, a few drops of preparedcochineal may be added, which rather enhances the beauty of this dish.
If the colour should not be very good, a few drops of prepared cochineal may be added to improve its appearance.
To improve the colour of the fruit, a few drops of prepared cochineal may be added; but this will not be found necessary if the pears are very gently baked.
It is also used with cochineal for scarlet on wool, in the proportion of 6 per cent.
Copper sulphate and dyed in a separate bath with cochineal gives a reddish purple, or claret colour.
It is considered by most dyers to be the first of the red dyes, being more permanent than cochineal and brighter than madder.
Like Cochineal and Kermes, Lac is a small scale insect, Coccus lacca.
Wool prepared with a nitro-muriatic solution of tin (as is now practised for the cochineal scarlet) and dyed with Kermes takes a kind of aurora, or reddish orange colour.
The females are placed on the Cactus in August and in about four or five months the first gathering of the Cochineal takes place, being then ready for the market.
A form of the Prickly Pear (Opuntia coccinellifera) is cultivated in Mexico for the purpose of raising the Cochineal insect (Coccus cacti) which feeds upon it.
A few drops of cochineal may be added to intensify the color of the last, which is apt to be a beautiful pink instead of red.
A Pink Compote is prepared in the same way, the only difference being that a very few drops of cochineal are added to the syrup before the pears go in.
The cochineal is imported from Spain, although the opuntia, or the tree that nourishes the cochineal-fly, abounds in many of the provinces of West Barbary, particularly in the province of Suse.
If such a saucepan is used, no cochineal will be needed.
Two or three drops of cochineal added to the pears after they are cooked improve their appearance.
If this is not convenient, add three or four drops of cochineal to the syrup or a small proportion of Red Currant or Red Gooseberry juice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cochineal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
