An Excellent Lime-wash for Walls
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a tub with 3 gallons of water.
Add 3 gallons of clean, sharp, coarse sand and 3 gallons of fresh burnt lime.
Stir the mixture until it reaches the thickness of cream.
Apply the wash to the walls with a large brush.
Stir the mixture each time you dip the brush to ensure even distribution.
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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