Bleaching Yellowed White Fabrics
From The farm cook & rule book, 1923
Serves 1
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Presented as published in 1923. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 118. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Bleaching Yellowed WMte Fabrics To bleach yellowed white cotton and linen fabrics, moisten the material in a solution made by dissolving 2 teaspoonfuls of potassium permanganate in 2 quarts of water. Rinse in a clear warm water. The material will become brown. Then dip it in a dilute oxalic acid solution, made by diluting the concentrated acid in an equal amount of water. Rinse through several waters, one of which is soapy. If all the white clothes appear a little yellow, use a lemon or oxalic acid rinse when washing. Use l^ tubful of hot water and add the juice of 4 large lemons or 2 tablespoonfuls of oxalic acid crystals
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