To make economical white house paint
From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829).
Source and licence
From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829), printed page 37, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101091388.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
- 8 oz. linseed oil
- 6 oz. white burgundy pitch
- 2 oz. Spanish white
Method
- Skim milk, 2 quarts, fresh slacked lime, 8 oz.
- linseed oil, 6 oz.
- white burgundy pitch, 2 oz.
- Spanish white, 3 pounds.
- The lime to be slacked in water, exposed to the air, mixed in about one-fourth of the milk;
- the oil in which the pitch is previously dissolved, to be added, a little at a time;
- then the rest of the milk, and afterwards the Spanish white.
- This quantity is sufficient for 27 square yards, two coats, and the expense not more than ten pence.