How to make Yellow Varnish.
To a quart of spirit of wine put eight ounces of seed cake, shake it half an hour; next day it will be fit for use, but first first it; take lamp-black, and put in your varnish about the thickness of a pancake; mix it well, but don't stir it too fast; then do it eight times over, and let it stand still the next day; then take some burnt ivory, and oil of turpentine as fine as butter; then mix it with some of your varnish, till you have varnished it for polishing; then polish it with tripoli in fine flour; then lay it on the wood smooth with one of the brushes; then let it dry, and do it six to eight times in the draft; when it is very dry lay on your varnish that is mixed, and when it is dry, polish it with a wet cloth dipped in tripola, and rub it as hard as you would do platters.