Celebrated Chemical
Mixture
for Washing
By Elizabeth
Waters
Richly Worth
Twenty Dollars
as
It Saves
Pounding & Rubbing
The Recipe, in a separate form,
is generally sold at Fifty Cents and One Dollar
each.
MIXTURE. -- Dissolve half a pound
of Soda in a gallon of Boiling Water, and pour
upon it a quarter pound of Lime. After this has
settled, cut up ten ounces of common bar Soap,
and strain the solution upon it, and mix
perfectly. Great care must be taken that no
particles of Lime are poured upon the Soap.
Prepare the Mixture the evening before washing.
DIRECTIONS. -- To ten
gallons of water add the above Preparation, when
the water is boiling; and put the clothes in
while boiling. Each lot of linen must boil half
an hour and the same liquid will answer for three
batches of clothes. The white clothes must be put
in soak over night, and, if the collars and
wristbands are soaped and rubbed slightly, so
much the better. Clean cold water may be used for
rinsing. Some prefer boiling them for a few
moments in clean blueing water and afterwards
rinse in cold water.
The Clothes may not appear
perfectly white while wet; but when dry, will be
clean white.
Ladies' Indispensible
Assistant, 1852, New York
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