For every pound of pearlash used in the calcination, from two to three pounds of alum are employed in the precipitation.
The purification of pearlash is founded upon the fact of its being more soluble in water than the neutral salts which debase it.
If this lye be diluted with 6 times its bulk of water mixed with as much slaked lime as there was pearlash employed, and the mixture be boiled for an hour, the potash will become caustic, by giving up its carbonic acid to the lime.
This is whiting coloured with a decoction of Brazil wood to which a littlepearlash has been added.
From soft soap dissolved in thrice its weight of strong soapers' lye; or, from freshly slaked lime made into a thin paste or cream with twice its weight of pearlash dissolved in a little water.
Boil one pound of logwood chips in three quarts of water, until the full strength is obtained; then add four ounces of pearlashand two ounces of powdered indigo.
This is produced by two ounces of American potash and two ounces of pearlash mixed together in a vessel containing one quart of hot water.
His method was as follows: "Dissolve in an iron kettle one part of pearlash in about eight parts of water; add one part of shell or seed-lac, and heat the whole to ebullition.
Pearlash has the same effect upon all summer vegetables, rendered tough by being too old.
If you find it acid, but still spirited, put a little pearlash to it, as you use it; but by no means put it into your bread unless it foams up bright and lively as soon as the pearlash mixes with it.
If poultry is injured before you are aware of it, wash it very thoroughly in pearlash and water, and sprinkle pepper inside when you cook it.
If your well-water is very hard, it is always an advantage to use a little pearlash in cooking.
It is a rule never to use pearlash for Indian, unless to correct the sourness of milk; it injures the flavor of the meal.
Every thing mixed with pearlash should be put in the oven immediately.
Under the old system, several alternate buckings with pearlash or potash and lengthened exposure on the field, with one or two sourings, and a final scrubbing with a strong lather of soft soap, constituted the chief details of the process.
The barrel is next washed in water in which a little pearlash or soda has been dissolved, and afterwards well rinsed in clean water; it is then polished, either with the burnisher, or with a brush and beeswax.
A lye of pearlash or soda, mixed with milk of lime, as well as strong hot brine, and other similar liquors, have been adopted by some persons, and are highly spoken of.
The best way is to wash them out with a little pearlash and warm water, adding a spoonful or two of fresh-slaked lime, if necessary.
Its fulminating property may be destroyed by boiling it in pearlash lye, or weak oil of vitriol; and by heating the residuum after washing it in water, pure gold will be obtained.
Women could make pearlash in the country, where large quantities of wood are burned in clearing off land, and would no doubt find it pay very well for the trouble.
Sometimes, by adding a little pearlash to a soap-lather and passing the silks through these, the faded color will be restored.
Pearlash and warm water will sometimes do alone, but it is the most efficacious to use the soap-lather and pearlash together.
In the old recipes pearlash is used, in these the modern term soda and baking powder have been substituted.
The early settlers made their own pearlash by burning either corn cobs or a bit of wood, often birch or maple, on the hearth, and from the clean ashes put in water obtained the carbonate of potash desired.
All vessels that have contained acids should have pearlashor soda in the rinsing water, and then be finished with plain water.
The only remedy for sour bread is, to melt a table-spoonful of soda or pearlash in tepid water, and sprinkle it over the dough, which must then be kneaded again, after it has rested half an hour.
Dissolve a very small tea-spoonful of pearlash or soda in as much lukewarm water as will cover it.
Wash it very clean in hot water, always before you put in fresh yeast, and then rinse the jug with water in which a spoonful of pearlash has been melted, letting the pearlash water remain in it five or six minutes, and shaking it round hard.
If you keep your yeast in glass bottles, the water must be warm, but not hot; as scalding water may crack them: also, melt some potash or pearlash in this water.
In the morning thin the dough with another pint of warm water, so as to make it into a batter, having first dissolved in the water a salt-spoonful of powdered pearlash or saleratus, or a bit the size of a hazle-nut.
If you have not used lye in scalding it, dissolve some potash or pearlash in the rinsing water, to remove any acidity that may linger about the vessel, and may therefore spoil the new yeast.
The inside of Britannia vessels should be washed with warm water, in which a little pearlash has been dissolved.
If you keep your yeast in glass bottles, the water must be warm, but not hot; as scalding water may crack them: also melt some potash or pearlash in this water.
Dissolve a level tea-spoonful of soda or pearlash in as much warm water as will melt it; then stir it in at the last.
A bit of pearlashthe size of a hazel-nut, or the same quantity of soda or sal-eratus.
If the dough should have stood so long as to become sour (which it will, if mixed over night) restore it by kneading in a small tea-spoonful of pearlash or sal-eratus melted in a little warm water.
Clean your head-brushes by washing them thoroughly with a bit of soft sponge tied on the end of a stick, and dipped into a warm solution of pearlash, prepared by dissolving a large table-spoonful of pearlash in a pint of boiling water.
Lastly, stir in a large tea-spoonful of soda, or a smaller one of pearlash or sal-eratus, dissolved in a very little lukewarm water.
Milk turned sour is very good for Boston cake; as by stirring the dissolved pearlash or soda into the milk, the acidity will be entirely removed, and the alkali rendered more effective in increasing the lightness of the cake.
When the mixture has risen quite light, and is covered with bubbles, add the dissolved pearlash to puff it still more.
Dissolve a small tea-spoonful of pearlashor soda in a very little warm water.
Add, at the last, a very small tea-spoonful of pearlash or soda, dissolved in a little vinegar or warm water.
If you have not used lye in scalding it, dissolve some potash or pearlash in the rinsing-water, to remove any acidity that may linger about the vessel, and may therefore spoil the new yeast.
Its effect would be too powerful on fine linen, and would injure its texture; pearlash is therefore only used for that which is of a strong coarse kind.
Then I should think it would be better to wash all linen with pearlash than with soap, as, in the latter case, the alkali being already combined with oil, must be less efficacious in extracting grease.
Dissolve copper filings in aquafortis, brush the wood with it, and then go over the work with a hot solution of pearlash (two ounces to a pint of water) till it assumes a perfectly blue colour.
To remove them, rub the part on each side with yellow soap, then tie up a piece of pearlash in the cloth, &c.
A Solution of Pearlash in Water, thrown upon a fire, extinguishes it instantly.
Brush over with a tincture of turmeric, formed by infusing an ounce of the root in a pint of spirit of wine; let this dry, and give another coat of pearlash solution, made by dissolving two ounces of the salt in a quart of water.
Use a cold infusion of archil, and brush over with the pearlash solution used for No.
Boil a pound of Brazil wood and an ounce of pearlash in a gallon of water, and while hot brush over the work until of a proper colour.
Boil half a pound of madder and two ounces of logwood chips in a gallon of water, and brush well over while hot; when dry, go over the whole with pearlash solution, two drachms to the quart.
Before using this dye it is necessary to free the hair from grease by washing it with soda or pearlash and water.
Boil the wood in the rose-water in a glass vessel; then, when cold, add the pearlash and spirit.
Chemists estimate that one hundred pounds of pearlash contain thirty per cent.
So little were the resources of the West developed at that day, that Mr. Bakewell had to procure his pearlash and red lead from Philadelphia, the pot clay from Burlington, N.
A little pearlash might safely be used on such an occasion, and with equal effect, its alkaline properties tending to correct the acidity.
Where bread is fixed to a standard weight and price, bakers are very apt to mix alum and pearlash with it, for the purpose of hastening its rising, and of encreasing its weight, by causing it to retain its moisture.
Weak pearlash water is good to remove stains produced by acids.
Pearlash water and sand is also good to extract grease and oil, they should be rubbed hard, then rinsed directly.
When rubbed on floors, it should be rinsed off immediately with weak pearlash water.
Nankeen is obtained from Spanish arnatto dissolved in hot water, with a small portion of pearlash in it.
To remove old putty from glazed frames, brush over it pearlash and slaked stone-burnt lime, mixed to the thickness of paint.
If turning sour put tea-spoon pearlash in each bottle.
Black, and when dry give a coat of pearlash solution, one drachm to a quart, taking care to lay it on evenly.
Boil a pound of Brazil wood and an ounce of pearlash in a gallon of water, and while hot brush over the work until of a proper color.
Dissolve copper filings in aquafortis, brush the wood with it, and then go over the work with a hot solution of pearlash (two ounces to a pint of water), till it assumes a perfectly blue color.
Brush over with a tincture of turmeric, formed by infusing an ounce of the root in a pint of spirits of wine; let this dry, and give another coat of pearlash solution, made by dissolving two ounces of the salt in a quart of water.
Grease-spots should be rubbed with strong pearlash and water.
If sour, from being mixed over night, melt a teaspoon of pearlash in a little milk-warm water, sprinkle it over the dough, and in half an hour knead it again.
Indian cake made with buttermilk, or sour milk with a little cream or butter rubbed into the meal, and a tea-spoonful of pearlash in the milk, is very light and nutritious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pearlash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
