Name: How to STAItCH Shirts, and Other Things
Ingredients: ¼ pound best starch; 3 pints pure, soft water; a minute quantity of fine French blue

How to STAItCH Shirts, and Other Things

Ingredients

¼ pound best starch
3 pints pure, soft water
a minute quantity of fine French blue

Directions

Put the starch into a thin muslin bag.
Soak the bag in 3 pints of soft water for 10-15 minutes.
Squeeze all the starch out of the bag.
Dip the shirts and articles that need to be very stiff first.
Thin the starch for children's aprons and lighter items.
This quantity will stiffen 3-4 dozen articles, ready for ironing immediately.

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.

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How to STAItCH Shirts, and Other Things