Christmas Colored Flame Yule Logs - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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)

Preparation

Tightly roll and tie newspapers about the size of a presto log (composite wood log).
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).
If you wish a three colored flame just mix salt, bluestone and 1 lb of borax.
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.