Good and Cheap Whitewash
From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886
Serves 1
Whitewash prevents decay of wood and improves healthfulness of buildings.
Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 180. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
GOOD AND CHEAP WHITEWASH. Few people know how easily whitewash is made and how valuable it is when properly applied. It not only prevents the decay of wood, but is greatly conducive to the healthfulness of buildings, whether wood or stone. Out-buildings and fences, when not painted, should be supplied once or twice a year with a good coat of whitewash, which should be prepared in the following way: Take a clean, water-tight barrel or other suitable cask, and put into it about half a bushel of lime ; slack it by pouring water over it boiling hot, and put in a sufficient quantity of water to cover it five inches deep, and stir it briskly till thoroughly slackened ; when the slackening has been thoroughly effected, dissolve it in water and add two pounds of sulphate of zinc and common salt. These will cause the wash to harden and prevent the cracking, which gives an unseemly appearance to the work. If desirable a beautiful cream color may be given to the above wash by adding three pounds of yellow ochre, or a good pearl by lead, lamp, vine or ivy black. For fawn color add four pounds of umber ; Turkish or American — the latter is the cheapest — one pound of Indian red, and one pound of common lamp-black
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