You can’t sleep, your heart feels warm and hyped at the same time.. but as the story so often goes, the love is impossible.. You’re in love with the stable boy. If your love can’t be stopped, you need to find a secret way to communicate. You can’t risk being caught after all! It would be so useful if there was a way in which you could send secret letters. Letters that can only be read at night, so that not everyone can read it. In this short article I’ll give you some tips on how to make an ink that can only be read in the dark, when it glows. One might call it ‘Glow-in-the-dark-ink’.
In a certain book of recipes, names ”Dat Batement van Recepten”, I encountered the following solution. The ingredients are: crystal, fireflies, a mortar and some egg white.
”To write a letter that will never be seen but at night. Or during the day in a dark place.
1. Take powder of crystal and the bellies of the worms that fly and glow at night
2. Mix it with egg white
3. Write with this mixture and let it dry. You will only be able to see the text at night, when it glows. You can only read this in the dark.”
This easy recipe guarantees exciting times and love letters in these dark months ahead. Have fun and write safe!
Source: Dat Batement van Recepten, p 51