The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
Lay the gloves upon a clean board, make a mixture of dried
fulling-earth and powdered alum, and pass them over on each side
with a common stiff brush: then sweep it off, and sprinkle them well
with dry bran and whiting, and dust them well; this, if they be not
exceedingly greasy, will render them quite clean; but if they are
much soiled, take out the grease with crumbs of toasted bread, and
powder of burnt bone: then pass them over with a woollen cloth,
dipped in fulling-earth or alum powder; and in this manner they can
be cleaned without wetting, which frequently shrinks and spoils them.
FULLER’S PURIFIER FOR WOOLLEN CLOTHS.
Dry, pulverize, and sift the following ingredients:
6 lbs. of fuller’s earth,
1 lb. of pipe-clay, and
4 oz. of French chalk.
Make a paste of the above with the following:—
1 oz. of rectified oil of turpentine,
2 oz. of spirit of wine, and
1½ lbs. of melted oil soap.
Make up the compound into cakes, which are to be kept in
water, or in small wooden boxes.
TO DRIVE AWAY, OR PREVENT THE APPROACH OF MOTHS.
Wrap up yellow or turpentine soap in paper, or place an open bottle,
containing spirits of turpentine within the wardrobe. But as the
smell of the latter may be unpleasant, sprinkle bay leaves, lavender,
or walnut-leaves, black pepper in grains, or Russia leather shavings.
TO REVIVE FADED BLACK CLOTH.
Having cleaned it well, boil two or three ounces of logwood for half
a hour. Dip it in warm water and squeeze it dry, then put it into the
copper, and boil half an hour. Take it out and add a small piece of
green copperas, and boil it another half hour. Hang it in the air for
an hour or two, then rinse it in two or three cold waters, dry it and
let it be regularly brushed over with a soft brush, over which a drop
or two of oil of olives has been rubbed.
TO DRY-CLEAN CLOTH.
Dip a brush in warm gall, apply it to greasy places, and rinse it
off in cold water; dry by the fire, then lay the coat flat, strew
damp sand over it, and with a brush beat the sand into the cloth;
then brush it out with a hard brush, and the sand will bring away the
dirt. Rub a drop of oil of olives over a soft brush, to brighten the
colours.
TO MAKE BREECHES BALL.
Mix 1 pound of Bath brick, 2 pounds of pipe-clay, 4 ounces of pumice
stone powder, and six ounces of ox gall; colour them with rose pink,
yellow ochre, umber, Irish slate, &c. to the desired shade.
CLOTHES’ BALL.
Mix 2 pounds of pipe clay, 4 ounces of Fuller’s earth, 4 ounces of
whiting, and a quarter of a pint of ox galls.
TO TAKE GREASE OUT OF LEATHER BREECHES.
The white of an egg applied to the injured part, and dried in the
sun, will effectually answer this purpose.
_Another Method._
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