Recipe for Mending Broken Chinaware

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1900

Recipe for Mending Broken Chinaware

The following recipe for mending broken chinaware is found in Table Talk: “If you break a piece of china, you can mend it so that it will not show, and can not be broken again in the same place. Make a solution of gum arabic, into which stir plaster of Paris until it becomes a thick cream. Apply to the broken edges with a brush, hold together for a few minutes; set away for three or four days, when the mended place will hardly be seen, and will be perfectly firm. The mixture when made must be used at once.”