Originally Posted by
Onebyone
That's an old recipe for making simple glue, usually for kids to glue paper crafts. Long ago permanent glue was made using horse hooves, that's the reason the earliest FW cases have the horrible smell.
I'm 72 and I remember when I was a small child my mother made flour and water paste to use for wallpaper. She boiled it on the stove and then let it cool. Any leftovers had to be refrigerated or they would mold. Sometimes the wallpapering took several days then the rest of the paste was thrown out. There was no alcohol in it. That might work as a preservative in your recipe.