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

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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