Whitewash
From Twentieth century home cook book, 1905
Serves 6
About a pint of the mixture will cover a square yard of surface.
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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This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 198. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Whitewashing. — Whitewash of hme is now seldom used for covering inside walls. There is no reason why it should not be. If properly made, it covers a surface almost as smoothly as the chalk of which kalsomine is composed, and is devoid of the disagreeable smell thereof. For covering rough buildings, fences, and other structures, where paint would be too costly, it is excellent, and, if properly made, is fairly water-proof, and may be applied by any one of ordinary intelligence and care. In order, however, that it may saturate the surface and hold, it should be put on hot, for which purpose the vessel containing it may be kejot over a good-sized kerosene lamp or a low fire of charcoal. Recipe for Whitewasll. — One of the best washes we have ever used is made thus : To so much water as will fill a barrel to the depth of two inches add one-half HOUSEHOLD ART AND TASTE. 351 bushel of pure, white quick-lime; then put in one peck of salt, previously dissolved in hot water ; cover tightly to keep in the steam; when cold, strain through a fine sieve; heat it again and then add, hot, a thin starch paste made from three pounds of rice flour; stir; add one jjound, hot, of strong glue ; add half-pound of whiting
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