Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

To Mix White-wash

Pour a kettle of boiling water on a peck of unslaked lime, put in two pounds of whiting, and half a pint of salt, when all are mixed together, put in half an ounce of Prussian blue, finely powdered, add water to make it a proper thickness to put on a wall.