Wash for Blankets

Ingredients

• 1 pint of soft soap
• a pound of castile soap
• a pint of linseed oil
• two large tablespoons of borax
• 1 pair of blankets
• two waters
• 1 shilling's worth of the oil of amber
• one tablespoonful 4 times a day

Directions

1. KATHARINE COMERFORD BARRY, NEW YORK (1746).

2. _Contributed by Mrs. W. Hinckle Smith, Philadelphia, Pa._

3. Two large tablespoons of borax, 1 pint of soft soap, or dissolve hard soap, into large tub of cold water. When dissolved, put in 1 pair of blankets, let them remain all night. Next day rub them and rinse in two waters, all cold. Put a little blue in second water; do not wring, but hang out to dry from water.

4. MRS. JUDGE FREDERICK SMITH’S SALVE (1800).

5. Take a pound of Castile soap, slice it very thin, put it in a brass skillet, to a pint of linseed oil; let it boil very well over a slow fire, until it boils up like soap-suds, then take it off and let it cool; then put it on again, add to it ½ lb. of red lead, and as much white, both finely sifted, stirring all the while, and when it begins to incorporate and turn brown, put into it 1 shilling’s worth of the oil of amber; take care you don’t let it turn black; wet a table and pour it on, and as soon as it cools make it up in balls. (Apply to inflamed or hardened surface on body.)

6. MARGARET’S TRIED RECIPE FOR CHILLS AND FEVER.

7. _Contributed by Miss F. Virginia Baldwin, Orange, N. J._

8. One oz. Peruvian bark, 1 oz. cream of tartar, ½ oz. whole cloves, ½ oz. cinnamon broken up, 1 pt. of port wine. Mix all together. Dose: One tablespoonful 4 times a day.