Name: For Bleaching Cotton Cloth
Ingredients: one pound chloride of lime; three pails water; two waters

For Bleaching Cotton Cloth

Ingredients

one pound chloride of lime
three pails water
two waters

Directions

Mrs. C. H. Wheeler.
One pound chloride of lime, dissolved and strained; put in two or three pails water ; thoroughly wet the cloth and leave it in over night ; then rince well in two waters. This will also take out mildew, and is equally good for brown cotton or white that has become yellow from any cause, and will not injure the fabric.

By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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For Bleaching Cotton Cloth