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BLACKING, Oil Paste

From Consult me, 1902

Serves 3

A superior Blacking.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BLACKING, Oil Paste. — Ivory black, two pounds ; treacle, four or five ounces ; oil of vitriol, two ounces ; tan- ner’s oil, five ounces ; (if this cannot be obtained, then use four ounces of best tallow) gum arabic, one ounce

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