Leather Treatment
From A bachelors cupboard, 1906
This helps restore softness to wet leather.
Presented as published in 1906. 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 A bachelors cupboard (1906) by A. Lyman Phillips, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
kerosene oil, pinching the leather and working it between the fingers as you do so. Rubber boots should be dried carefully, and when they become wet inside they need heroic treatment. Have a peck of oats, or, failing these, coarse sand, or even old rags. Heat quite hot, then put inside the boot, and repeat until the boot is quite dry. Allow mud to dr>^ on the shoes before brushing it off. Then rub over with kerosene oil and glycerine in equal parts. If glycerine is not available, the oil alone may be used. Even tallow
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