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Recipe for Wet Feet [Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century receipt]
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An anonymous handwritten “receipt” or practical formula titled “Recipe for Wet Feet,” offering instructions for waterproofing leather shoes or boots. The mixture calls for “1 pint of boiled linseed oil, ½ pound of mutton suet, 8 ounces of clean beeswax, [and] 8 ounces common resin,” to be melted “before a gentle fire” and applied “hot, without burning the leather.” The writer advises allowing it to dry, then repeating the process twice more for full protection.
The composition of the recipe accords with early American household and artisanal manuals that circulated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when domestic chemistry blended with practical craft traditions. Such receipts were shared among cobblers, saddlers, and householders before the commercial manufacture of waterproofing compounds.
Description: Recipe for Wet Feet [Eighteenth or early nineteenth-century receipt]
[Likely America, ca. late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.] Manuscript on laid paper, approximately 5 x 6 in., written in brown ink. Docketed. Near fine condition. bcjsbn375059
[3735818]Price: $45.00