Bleaching White Goods

Ingredients

• two pounds of sal soda
• half gallons of water
• one pound of chloride of lime
• a pound of chloride of lime
• a gallon of water to the lime
• five minntes

Directions

1. Two pounds of sal soda and half a pound of chloride of lime. Put half a gallon of water to the lime and let it stand all night. In the morning dissolve the soda in three and a half gallons of water ; add to 16

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3. the lime-water and strain. Immerse the cloth in boiling suds ; then take out and put directly into the mixture ; leave it in for half an hour, then rinse the muslin thoroughly and lay upon the grass or snow, or hang upon a line in the sun. To make it very white, dampen occasion- ally and leave it out for two or three days.

4. This is equally good : For twenty yards of muslin take one pound of chloride of lime ; soak it in warm water over night ; then strain through a coarse cloth into a tub of water as hot as you can bear the hands in ; put in the cloth and stir it constantly thirty minutes ; then wring out and rinse as long as your strength or patience lasts and your cloth will be white and it will not injure it — if it is thoroughly rinsed.

5. To Cleanse Cotton Goods — Add to hot rain water an amount of wheat bran equal to one-eighth of the fabric to be cleansed, and after stirring well for five minntes, add the goods ; stir them about with a clean stick and bring the articles to a boil. Allow the mixture to cool until the goods can be washed out, after which rinse them well.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

Counts 2 of 3 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.