Chas <webmasterNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schrieb:
>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?
My first guess was linseed oil, which is still used in woodworking and
oil painting today. And it might be used for cooking, but nobody
really does this today.
Olive oil was very expensive during the middle ages, but it got
cheaper during 1600-1800, so it was maybe used, too.
MFG; Till Potinius
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