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Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Olive oil
  2. Wine
  3. Spirits
  4. Water
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. To produce the Italian polish, first saturate the surface well with olive oil, and then apply a solution of gum Arabic dissolved in spirits wine;
  2. the length of time for saturation will depend upon the state and kind of wood;
  3. so with the proportions of gum and spirits wine.
  4. Gum will not dissolve in aleohol or spirits wine;
  5. therefore pound it small and add as little boiling water as possible to dissolve it.
  6. When the gum is dissolved and cold, add to it spirits wine;
  7. but, as the polish should be applied hot, put the solution in a bottle corked loosely, and immerse the bottle in a pot or pees placed over the fire, till itis hot;
  8. be careful that the bottle be placed upon a plate, or on a wisp of hay in the water, or it will burst.
  9. This way of warming is | much the same as that practiced by carpenters to warm glue, and prevents the spirit evaporating.
  10. Let this application and the subsequent friction take place ina warm room;
  11. the proportions of the gum and alcohol being adapted to the climate and the height of the polish required.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle