The new home cook book

WASHING FLUID. Mrs. A. P. Iglehart. Nine tablespoons unslaked lime, two pounds of sal soda, four quarts water; let this simmer half an hour, then bottle up. Take a small teacup to a boiler of water. WASHING FLUID. Mrs. A. W. D. One pound sal soda, one pound potash, each dissolved in one gallon of water (separately); then mix together and bottled. TO MAKE GOOD STARCH. Mrs. D. Mix the starch with cold water, add boiling water until it thickens, then add dessert spoon of sugar, and a small piece of butter. Makes a stiff and glossy finish equal to laundry. AN EXCELLENT HARD SOAP. Mrs. Kate Johnson. Pour twelve quarts soft boiling water on two and onehalf pounds of unslacked lime ; dissolve five pounds sal soda in twelve quarts soft hot water ; then mix and let them remain from twelve to twenty-four hours. Pour off all the clear fluid, being careful not to allow any of the sediment to run off ; boil three and one-half pounds clean grease and three or four ounces of rosin in the above lye till the grease disappears ; pour into a box and let it stand a day to stiffen and then cut in bars. It is as well to put the lime in all the water and then add the soda. After pouring off the fluid, add two or three gallons of water and let it stand with the lime and soda dregs a day or two. This makes an excellent washing fluid to boil or soak the clothes in, with one pint in a boiler of water. CLEANING SILVER. Mrs. O. L. Parker. Never put a particle of soap about your silver if you would have it retain its original lustre. When it wants polish, take a piece of soft leather and whiting and rub hard. The proprietor of one of the oldest silver establishments in the city of Philadelphia says that housekeepers ruin their silver in soap suds, as it makes it look like pewter. POLISH FOR ZINC OR TIN. Mrs. Thos. A. Hill. To three pints of water add one ounce of nitric acid, two ounces of emery, and eight ounces of pumice stone ; shake well together. Any druggist will fill it for fifteen cents. STOVE POLISH. Mrs. O. L. Parker. Stove lustre, when mixed with turpentine and applied in the usual manner, is blacker, more glossy, and more durable than when mixed with any other liquid. The turpentine prevents rust, and when put on an old rusty stove will make it look as well as new. TO EXTRACT INK. To extract ink from cotton, silk and woolen goods, saturate the spot with spirits of turpentine and let it remain several hours ; then rub it between the hands. It will crumble away without injuring either the color or texture of the article. TO TAKE INK OUT OF LINEN. Dip the spotted part in pure tallow, melted ; then wash out the tallow and the ink will disappear. PATENT SOAP. Mrs. Ludlam. Five pounds hard soap, one quart ley, one-fourth ounce pearl-ash ; place on the fire and stir well until the soap is dissolved; add one-half pint spirits turpentine, one gill spirits hartshorn and stir well. It is then fit for use. The finest muslin may be put to soak in this suds, and if left for a time will become beautifully white. A small portion of soap put into a litde hot water, and a flannel cloth will save hard labor and a brush in cleaning paint. One who has tried it thinks it worth the price of the book. FOR BLEACHING COTTON CLOTH.