Any period cooks out there can answer this?
In his book "Mechanick Exercises" Joseph Moxon mentions wood turners
poli****ng hardwood with "salad oyl"
"Hard wood they polish with beez-wax, viz. by holding bees-wax against
it, till it have sufficiently toucht it all over; and press it hard
into it by the edge of a flat piece of hard wood made sizable and
suitable to the work made sizable and suitable to the work the work
upon, as the work is going about. Then they set a gloss on it with a
very dry woolen rag, lightly smeared with salad oyl."
Any thoughts on what kind of salad oil? Olive oil was my guess... or
were there other cooking oils that might have been used in England or
places where olive oil would have to be im****ted?
Chas
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