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Lime Wash for the Kitchen

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Lime Wash for the Kitchen

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Half fill a large pail with quick-lime.

  2. Pour 1 gallon of cold water over the quick-lime and stir until bubbling stops.

  3. Stir in 1 pint of linseed oil.

  4. Add enough more cold water to make the wash the consistency of thin paste.

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.