Paper and Printing Recipes / A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades

by John Sawtelle Ford

To Make Black Ink.

Lactate of iron, 15 grains; powdered gum arabic, 75 grains; powdered sugar, half a drachm; gallic acid, 9 grains; hot water, 3 ounces. (Lactate of iron is a novelty in ink-making, and the above formula may possibly suit those who have a taste for writing with mucilaginous matters instead of limpid solutions.)