Name: Bran Water
Ingredients: one quart to a gallon of water; a gallon of water

Bran Water

Ingredients

one quart to a gallon of water
a gallon of water

Directions

This is excellent for washing a delicate material without fading it; if not too much soiled, the article can be cleansed without soap. Prepare it by boiling bran in a bag in the proportion of one quart to a gallon of water. Let it cool, and add another gallon of water. This will answer for soap and starch.

By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog]. 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.