Recipes for Flint Glass Making : Being Leaves from the Mixing Book of Several Experts in the Flint Glass Trade (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Recipes for Flint Glass Making: Being Leaves From the Mixing Book of Several Experts in the Flint Glass Trade

This mixture turned immediately it was put into the lear. Fill the pot for ruby a little at a time, and watch that it does not ferment. It does not require above twenty hours to fine and mind the pot does not get too hot. When it is worked into lumps, put it into the lear with some fine ashes. Keep it turned often, and when a dark ruby get it down the lear; if it be not all dark, it will right itself in the plating. The metal from the pot should be a light straw.

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