Sheeting Wax
From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886
Serves 1
Thicker sheets can be obtained by allowing the wax to cool in the vessel before melting again.
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 298. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
SHEETING WAX. 337 well with a bright yellow ; set them into the cement as the rose was set, only very much closer together, each one lapping over the other as close as it is possible to make them ; continue like this for some rows, then set in the rest gradually, more and more open, the last two rows radiating outward a little. Dip a brush in carmine and lightly mark the tips of the shells to give them an irregular, jagged appearance. All of the garden favorites may be made in the same way, by taking the cement for a foundation and forming the flowers as nearly as pos- sible like the natural blossom, painting it with the proper colors and copying faithfully any peculiar markings. When finished they may be arranged into a wreath or bouquet, and framed if the maker wishes, although the basket is prettiest. SHEETING- WAX. Take two cakes of the best white wax and melt slowly in an earthen vessel ; when melted stir in a large teaspoonful of balsam of fir, and a finger-length of " silver white," such as comes in tubes for oil painting, squeezing it from the tube into the melted wax. Have a basin of clean, warm soapsuds at hand and a plate of clean, smooth glass
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