Show early day painting in the days when paint recipes re cipes were kept in the family cook book our colonial ancestors knew about making paint out of skimmed milk which is basically the same idea as the modern casein casem paint of to day which has a milk base colo jol mal nial dames mixed skimmed d milk with salt boiled rice coffee and egg white when they wanted a batch of paint for freshening up their houses and a painted house was a matter of social prestige it was considered presumptuous for a tradesman to paint his dwelling gradually though as the idea of equality penetrated the butcher and the baker and the candlestick maker decided they had as much I 1 right to paint their houses as the doctor lawyer and ship owner |