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Wall Whitening Solution

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 1

For yellow walls, blue the water slightly with a flannel blue-bag.

Presented as published in 1887. 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 Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 351. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two ounces of white vitriol to four gallons of water. Soak a quarter of a pound of white glue in water for twelve hours ; strain and place in a tin pail in a kettle of boiling water. When melted, stir in the glue eight pounds of whiting

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