My first hurdle is creation of Hydrocellulose. The original Paper Instructions called for producing Hydrocellulose through the following Instructions:
TO SECURE HYDROCELLULOSE: Into the bottom of a 2-quart glass jar place 300 sheets of NORTHERN TISSUE - about half the roll. Pour over this tissue enough pure commercial MURIATIC ACID to cover the paper and rise an inch above – about 1 1/2 pints. Jar somewhat over half full. Place the glass lid, with rubber scaling ring, on the jar loosely, but so that it will not fall off and so that it will prevent fumes climbing out. Boil the jar slowly for 30 minutes IN A KETTLE OF WATER. Keep jar off the bottom of the kettle by setting jar on pieces of coiled wire. Stir your acid and paper two or three times during the 30 minutes. And keep the lid on the jar, not tightly, but by its own weight to retain the fumes. Set kettle and all off the fire and let cool.
When cool, dump the whole tannish-gray colored thick soup into a cotton sack – a good 10 pound clean sugar sack - and flood and wash the contents of your sack UNDER RUNNING WATER. DO ALL OF THIS DUMPING AND WASHING OUT OF DOORS. The acid will not hurt your hands - remember we are talking of MURIATIC ACID. Don't lose any of your hydrocellulose out of your sack in the washing. Work the sack from the bottom with your left hand, holding the top shut with your right. After washing many times, drop into your sack 3/4 full of hydrocellulose and water, 2 teaspoonful of Bi- carbonate of Soda - common baking soda. Shake the sack, and add water, and then wash many times. Wash until you can taste neither soda nor acid. Test with blue litmus paper if you like. If neutral, squeeze out all of the water possible, crumble the hydrocellulose finely, spread out on newspaper in a hot and dry place, clean and ventilated, and let dry 24 hours. It is then ready to weigh and use in powder mixtures.