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How to Keep Suet

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How to Keep Suet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select the nicest looking suet, as free as possible from veins or spots; have your pot just near enough to the fire to melt the suet very gradually ; pour it into a vessel of very cold clear water as soon as it is melted, it will soon grow quite firm, wipe

  2. 134 THE STAR CRYSTAL COOK BOOK.

  3. all dampness from it, cover it with the waxed paper used by confectioners, if it can possibly be got, otherwise use any white paper. Envelop it in linen, and keep dry and cool. S.

  4. POLISH FOR HARDWOOD FLOORS AND

  5. FURNITURE.

  6. One quarter pound beeswax, 1 ounce castile soap, turpen- tine to soften. Shave the soap very fine and dissolve in turpen- tine. Insert a tin with wax and some turpentine in a vessel of boiling water, and keep adding turpentine until well dissolved. Allow plenty of time. Fully a quart of turpentine will be needed. Make of consistency of soft jelly, adding at the last one tablespoonful sweet oil. Apply a very little at a time, with canton flannel, and polish with a soft cloth.

  7. TO PROTECT A STOVE FROM RUST WHEN

  8. One-half gallon benzine, three-fourths pound pulverized rosin.

By Clarke, Mary Lamson. [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.

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