Silk and Cotton Hose

Ingredients

• three pints of warm salt water
• one teaspoonful of powdered borax to every pail of hot water
• a piece of fine linen
• a pound of soft soap
• a large wineglassful of gin
• a small piece of alum
• a handful of salt
• a spoonful of vinegar in the rinsing water helps to brighten
• two parts
• two waters
• half dry
• one article at a time

Directions

1. For Silk Stockings. Make a strong lather with boiling water and curd soap. Leave it to get almost cold, then divide it into two parts. Wash the stockings well in one of the lathers, pressing them up and down, but avoid rubbing as much as possible. Squeeze out the wet, and then wash them in the second lather, in which a few drops of gin may be poured. Do not rinse in fresh water, but squeeze out the wet very carefully without wringing. Lay them out fliat on a piece of fine linen, and roll them up tightly until almost dry, then rub with a roll of flannel. Black stockings wash in a cool lather of plain white soap and rain water, with a little ammonia mixed in it. Keep from the air while drying by rolling in a cloth ; do not wring, but press the moisture well out. Salt and water form a good rinse.

2. Black Silk Stockings are apt to fade unless washed with care. Take a quarter of a pound of soft soap, the same quantity of run honey, and a large wineglassful of gin ; mix these until dissolved in a quart or three pints of warm salt water. Wash the stockings well in this and rinse them in two waters (rain water is best), squeeze them in a towel, smooth them out and lay them on a sheet to dry in some airy place, but not in the sun. Smooth them with a cool iron on the wrong side. If carefully and quickly done in this way, black silk stockings will retain their color. Black merino stockings should be washed twice in a lather of milk- warm water, and no soap rubbed on them. Rinse in cold water with salt in it; dry them quickly in the open air, if possible, and when half dry, mangle them.

3. Colored Hose. First, they should never be soaped or soaked. If not too soiled, wash in almost cold water ; make a lather of good bar soap — white is best— and in it dissolve a small piece of alum. Use this dis- solved soap in the water, and rub the goods with the hands as far as possible. Put through two waters, and rinse in two more. A handful of salt or a spoonful of vinegar in the rinsing water helps to brighten and hold the colors. Wash only one article at a time, and that very quickly. This is good for colored muslins, calicoes, linens and silk handkerchiefs.

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5. When striped stockings are washed and are ready to hang up to chy, turn them wrong side out ; this will prevent the color from running on the right side and spoiling the stockings.

6. To Set the Color. When washed for the first time, use a little ox gall (it can be procured at the druggist's) ; use it in the first water only ; also have one teaspoonful of powdered borax to every pail of hot water. Use very little soap. After the first use of ox gall, borax will answer every purpose. Do not let the stockings remain long in any water ; hang in the shade to dry.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

Counts 2 of 4 ingredients. The other 2 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.