Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
Wet white clothes in suds, and lay them on the grass, in the sun. It
will save from grass stain, to have a clean white cloth under the
articles to be whitened. Lay muslins in suds made with white soap, in
a flat dish; set this in the sun, changing the suds every day. Whiten
tow-cloth or brown linen by keeping it in lye through the night, laying
it out in the sun, and wetting it with fair water, as fast as it dries.
Scorched articles can often be whitened again by laying them in the
sun, wet with suds. Where this does not answer, put a pound of white
soap in a gallon of milk, and boil the article in it. Another method
is, to chop and extract the juice from two onions, and boil this with
half a pint of vinegar, an ounce of white soap, and two ounces of
fuller’s earth. Spread this, when cool, on the scorched part, and, when
dry, wash it off in fair water. _Mildew_ may be removed by dipping the
article in sour buttermilk, laying it in the sun, and, after it is
white, rinsing it in fair water. Soap and chalk are also good; also,
soap and starch, adding half as much salt as there is starch, together
with the juice of a lemon. Stains in linen can often be removed by
rubbing on soft soap, then putting on a starch paste and drying in the
sun, renewing it several times. Wash off all the soap and starch in
cold fair water.
MIXTURES FOR REMOVING STAINS AND GREASE.
=Stain Mixture.=—Half an ounce of oxalic acid in a pint of soft water.
This can be kept in a corked bottle and is infallible in removing
iron-rust and ink-stains. It is very poisonous. The article must be
spread with this mixture over the steam of hot water, and wet several
times. This will also remove indelible ink. The article must be
washed, or the mixture will injure it.
=Another Stain-Mixture= is made by mixing one ounce of sal ammoniac,
one ounce of salt of tartar, and one pint of soft water.
=To remove Grease.=—Mix four ounces of fullers earth, half an ounce
of pearlash, and lemon-juice enough to make a stiff paste, which can
be dried in balls, and kept for use. Wet the greased spot with cold
water, rub it with the ball, dry it, and then rinse it with fair cold
water. This is for _white_ articles. For silks and worsteds use French
chalk, which can be procured of the apothecaries. That which is soft
and white is best. Scrape it on the greased spot, under side, and
let it lie for a day and night. Then brush off that used, and renew
it till the spot disappears. Wilmington clay-balls are equally good.
Ink-spots can often be removed from white clothes by rubbing on common
tallow, leaving it for a day or two, and then washing as usual. Grease
can be taken out of wall-paper by making a paste of potter’s clay,
water, and ox-gall, and spreading it on the paper. When dry, renew it,
till the spot disappears.
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