For keping Shoos Black

Title: For keping Shoos Black
Creator: Spencer, G.
Date: 1773
Description: A recipe for making shoe black (keeping shoes black).
Transcript: Elizabeth Fairfax Hir Booke 1694

For keeping Shoos black— Take halph a pound of of bees wax & quarter of a pound of clarified sheep suet & ounce of lampe black one penny worth of gum aribeck put in the lamp black the fat & wax being melted let them boyle well to gather & when you take it of the fire put in the gumb which must first be desolved in warm water make it into bals & so reserve it for use— [Probatum est a me]: G: Spencer [strikeout] [struck: G Spencer] 1773
Subject: See all items with this value beeswax; See all items with this value suet; See all items with this value sheep; See all items with this value gum arabic; See all items with this value dyes; See all items with this value preservation; See all items with this value carbon black
Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth; Landry, Elena; 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.
Identifier: 5

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