My Grandmothers F: Sear Cloth
Item
- Title
- My Grandmothers F: Sear Cloth
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A recipe for an oil to be applied to clothes, made from red lead, white lead, bole armoniac (or Armenian bole, a type of clay), and olive oil.
- Transcript
- Rx 4 ounces of red lead 1 ounce of white lead 3 ounces of Boalalmenack halfe a pint of Oyle Olieve. mix all these togeather & [strikeout] seet it on the fier & when it is half a nuf put in one ounce of Oyle of Exeter so let it simer a while longer then put in your Cloths & have a bord reddy oyld to ly them on then anoint your hands with oyle & Clap them smouth while they are hot on both sides.
- Subject
- See all items with this valuered lead (lead(II,IV) oxide)
- See all items with this valuewhite lead
- See all items with this valueArmenian bole
- See all items with this valueolive oil
- Contributor
- Ochsner, Elizabeth
- Le, Vincent
- 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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