Christmas Colored Flame Yule Logs

• 2 lbs coarse salt
• 2 lbs bluestone
• 2 gallons boiling water
• any of the following chemicals depending on what color of flame you want
• 1 ounce strontium nitrate (red flame)
• 1 ounce bismuth nitrate (crimson flame)
• 1 ounce antimony chloride (blue flame)
• 1 ounce barium chloride (green flame) or 1 ounce borax (green flame)
• 1 ounce potassium chloride (purple flame)

1. Tightly roll and tie newspapers about the size of a presto log (composite wood log).
2. Mix the ingredients in a bucket and put rolled newspapers (you can tie the rolled papers with string) in the bucket and let them soak until all the fluid has been absorbed Dry on a rack (they take about a month to dry).
3. If you wish a three colored flame just mix salt, bluestone and 1 lb of borax.
4. Buy bluestone in a paint store, Borax& salt from a grocery store and the chemicals from your drugstore or some would be available from a feed store.

salt, bluestone, boiling water, chemicals depending, nitrate, bismuth nitrate, purple

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/christmas-colored-flame-yule-logs-13694 (may not work)