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To Restore Furniture

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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To Restore Furniture

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a mixture of three parts of linseed oil, and one part spirits of turpentine ; put it on with a woolen cloth, and when dry, rub with a woolen cloth or chamois. Good for cleaning picture frames and restoring furniture marred or scratched. It covers the disfigured surface, and restores wood to its original color, leaving a lustre upon the surface.

  2. SCOIIRISTG L.IQIJID FOR BRASS.

  3. Oil of vitriol, one ounce; sweet oil, one-half gill; pulverized rotten stone, one gill; rain water, one and a half pints. Mix well and shake as used. Apply with a rag, and then polish with buckskin or old woolen.

  4. SPOTS OIV VARXISHED FURXITURE

  5. Are readily removed b}^ rubbing them with essence of peppermint, or spirits of camphor, and afterwards with furniture polish or oil.

  6. TO CI.EAX SILTER.

  7. Wash silver in very hot, clear water, wipe dry with a soft towel, and you will have no need for any prepara- tion.

  8. TO REMOVE A OI^ASS STOPPER

  9. From a bottle, hold a lighted match to the neck of the bottle, and the heat will cause the neck so to expand that the stopper will loosen.

By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the. 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.