Name: Compound for Washing Fluid
Ingredients: one pound of unslacked lime; six quarts of rain water; three pounds of sal-soda; one teacup; half teacup

Compound for Washing Fluid

Ingredients

Directions

MRS. C. C. HOWELL.
One pound of unslacked lime and three pounds of sal-soda. Boil in six quarts of rain water, pour the whole in a tub, add four- teen quarts of water, stir thoroughly and allow it to settle; then bottle. For washing, use one teacup for the first boiler, for each succeeding boiler a half teacup.

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.