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Furniture Cream

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Furniture Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the shredded beeswax and white wax with turpentine in a warm place until dissolved.

  2. In a separate pot, boil water, Castile soap, and resin until melted.

  3. Pour the melted mixture over the wax and turpentine mixture.

  4. Mix thoroughly and store in a wide-necked stone bottle for use.

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.