Japanning recipe

Re: Japanning recipe

s.mackay@worldnet.att.net

>Love to know where you found that one ! I hope it was writen in hand, in English script, inside the lid of the writer's tool chest. I LOVE these little time capsules ! Hope you got the tool chest also !

Actually

Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret

>That recipe is from an 1824 recipe book published in London of which I own a copy. It contains over 5000 recipes for everything from ink to alloys to beverages to medicine to food to beverage to varnish and paint and beverages.

Also recipes for drowning, boot blacking, cold tin plating, painting on glass, it goes on and on. I don't read it because I can't put it down.

I just had it taken apart by a book conservator, I am now in the process of scanning and then the book binder will restore it to near original condition. The spine is mostly missing but I have both boards.

I will be republishing it later this fall and it will be available.

(Shameless Self Promotion)

Stephen

Re: recipe book & umber

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>I am pretty sure that is the same recipe book that I borrowed from a friend a few years back. Actually a friend of a friend owned the book, bought for $5 at auction. This was an incredible book just as you describe, and if it is being published I will get the second mortgage on the house in order to get my hands on a copy. Or my first born daughter. She is 15 now so may not hold much value in the way of trading. (For those of you who don't recognize humor, this is it. The best I can do.) The recipe refers to umber, and I am wondering specifically what that would be and where I would find it if someone happens to know. I have the asphaltum and can get a gallon of boiled oil, just need that umber and I can see how the recipe works.

Re: recipe book & umber

Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret

>It is difficult to tell if it is raw umber or burnt umber which is an earth pigment. I get mine from a local pottery supply company they sell it by the pound (800 fine - powder), it is dirt cheap, wait it is dirt. I use burnt umber as I like the color.

Stephen

I GOTTA have a copy of THIS !

s.mackay@worldnet.att.net

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Just scanned the first two signitures...

Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret

>which took an hour. Only 34 more to scan, a slow process.

Here is a page you might find of interest.

Stephen

Going to show my ignorance . . . .

s.mackay@worldnet.att.net

>can we move or save this in a readable fashion ? Probably a trick I've never done yet.

I had to compress the file...

Stephen Shepherd in the State of Deseret

>I sent a copy to your email address in the uncompressed version.

Stephen