In the Annales des Artes & [l.] is the following receipt for making a milk white paint

Title: In the Annales des Artes & [l.] is the following receipt for making a milk white paint
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for making a white paint using lime, milk, linseed oil, Burgundy pitch (a kind of resin), and Spanish white (a chalk white pigment).
Transcript: Skim milk two quarts fresh slaked lime eight ounces, linseed oil six ounces white Burgundy pitch two ounces Spanish White three pounds. The lime is to be slaked 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 not of the milk and, afterwards the spanish white. This quantity is sufficient for 27 square has two coats and the expence [strikeout] not more than ten-pence.
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Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent; Grimm, Stephanie; Salahuddin, Shafiya
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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