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To Boil White Clothes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Boil White Clothes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a boiler with 3 gallons of water.

  2. Add 2 tablespoons of melted soap and 1 dessertspoon of paraffin.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  4. Submerge the finest clothes, pressing them down with a stick.

  5. Boil for 30 minutes, ensuring the water remains boiling.

  6. After boiling, transfer clothes to cold water, rub out, and rinse again.

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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