Recipe for Willington Brown

In the first place pour Coffee Bung filter with puir water for 40 yds white cloth put in 10 lbs good ?? 4 lbs Niagara. Boil them 1 hour 15 minutes Cool dip 1 hour at 1 no pailash and 4 mo virdrgras mixed with org dip save and spoonfuls compound dip 4 hour at Copperas and Logwood dip till ???

 Recipe for Olive Brown

…twenty yds cloth take 6 pounds of sutir Champion pound Hogwood Boil well and ?? your cloth ˝ hour then add 1 lb m??? Let it simmer 1 hour then?? as before then add ˝ pound of Ch???? Bluing Stir and mix it well with the ?? run your cloth 20 minutes add ˝ pounds ??gwood and 1 gallon. ?? your cloth as before

Transcribed for this website by Terri Nan Treibits.

Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753. Found in the  Edgerton manuscript collection, consisting of about 10,000 individual documents.