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

How to Starch 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 water for 10-15 minutes.
Squeeze out all the starch from the bag.
Dip the shirts and stiff articles into the starch solution.
Thin the starch for children's aprons and lighter items.
This quantity will stiffen 3-4 dozen articles, ready for ironing.

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 Starch Shirts, and Other Things