Name: For Preserving Leather
Ingredients: 3 pints linseed oil; 12 ounces beeswax; 4 ounces pounded rosin; 2 ounces fir rosin; 2 pints neat's-foot oil; 1 cup turpentine

For Preserving Leather

Ingredients

Directions

Melt the linseed oil, beeswax, pounded rosin, and fir rosin together.
Once melted, add the neat's-foot oil and turpentine.
Stir until well combined.
Allow to cool before using for preserving leather.

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.

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For Preserving Leather