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Floor Stain

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson." · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Floor Stain

Ingredients

Directions

  1. One pound of burnt umber ground in oil ; mix this with boiled linseed oil, enough to color well without thickening the oil. Rub this mixture well into the wood with a woolen cloth, wiping with another cloth until the stain ceases to come off. Mix one gallon of turpentine with one pound of wax, shaved

  2. 298 MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES.

  3. up, let it stand all night. Next day rub on the floor with a woolen cloth.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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