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Inside Paint

From Twentieth century home cook book, 1905

Serves 15

This preparation is equal to oil paint and can be tinted with dry pigments.

Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 175. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Inside Paint. — A cheap inside paint, and by no means a bad one, especially where the smell of oil or turpentine would be objectionable, or in any case where lead paint is not desirable, may be made by taking eight ounces of freshly slaked lime, and mixing it in an earthen vessel, with three quarts of skimmed sweet milk. 306 TWENTIETH CENTURY HOME COOK BOOK. In another vessel mix three and a half pounds of Paris white with three pints of skimmed milk. When these mixtures are well stirred up, put them together, and add six ounces of linseed oil

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