To Make Good Starch

Ingredients

• twelve quarts soft boiling water on two
• half pounds of unslacked lime
• five pounds sal soda in twelve quarts soft hot water
• one-half pounds clean grease
• four ounces of rosin in the above lye till the grease disappears
• one pint in a boiler of water
• a small piece of butter
• twelve quarts soft hot water
• three gal- lons of water

Directions

1. Mix the starch with cold water, add boiling water until it thickens, then add dessert spoon of sugar, and a small piece of butter. Makes a stiff and glossy finish equal to laundry.

2. AN EXCELLENT HARD SOAR

3. Mrs. Kate Johnson.

4. Pour twelve quarts soft boiling water on two and one- half pounds of unslacked lime ; dissolve five pounds sal soda in twelve quarts soft hot water ; then mix and let them remain from twelve to twenty-four hours. Pour off all the clear fluid, being careful not to allow any of the sediment to run off; boil three and one-half pounds clean grease and three or four ounces of rosin in the above lye till the grease disappears ; pour into a box and let it stand a day to stiffen and then cut in bars. It is as well to put the lime in all the water and then add the soda. After pouring off the fluid, add two or three gal- lons of water and let it stand with the lime and soda dregs a day or two. This makes an excellent washing fluid to boil or soak the clothes in, with one pint in a boiler of water.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.