Ingredients
- one-half bushel
- one peck
- three pounds -- boiled to a thin paste
- half pound
- one pound
- one filled
- five gallons
- 1 well
- salt
Directions
Many have heard of the brilliant stucco whitewash on the end of the President's house at Washington. The following is a recipe for it, as gleaned from the National Intelligencer, with some additional improve- ments learned by experiment :
Nice slacked lime one-half bushel; slack it with boiling water; cover it during the process, to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it, salt one peck; previously well dissolved in water; rice three pounds—boiled to a thin paste, and atirred in boiling hot ; Spanish whiting one- half pound; clean nice glue one pound, which has been
previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hang- ing it over a slow fire, in a kettle, immersed in a larger one filled with water. Now add hot water five gallons, to the mixture; stir 1 well, and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt.
It should be put on hot. For this purpose it can be kept in a kettle or portable furnace. Brushes more or less small may be used, according to the neatness of job required. It answers as well as oil paint for brick or
stone, and is much cheaper.