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Recipe for Whitewash

One of the best washes we have ever used is made thus: To so much water as will fill a barrel to the depth of two inches add one-half bushel of pure, white quick-lime; then put in one peck of salt, previously dissolved in hot water; cover tightly to keep in the steam; when cold, strain through a fine sieve; heat it again and then add, hot, a thin starch paste made from three pounds of rice flour; stir; add one pound, hot, of strong glue; add half-pound of whiting, previously dissolved in hot water; dilute with hot water to consistency of cream; apply hot.

The glue is first soaked, then gradually dissolved in water, by placing the vessel holding it in another containing boiling water; used as directed, this is the most permanent wash we know of. About a pint of the mixture will cover a square yard of surface.