Cleaning Paint

Ingredients

• whiting
• warm water

Method

1. 1

   Mix whiting with warm water to a paste, rub the surface briskly, and wash off with pure cold water.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book (1901) by Johnson, Alice A.,, page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

warm water ; take a clean, coarse cloth, and, having brushed the carpet well, rub it hard with the cloth thoroughly wet with gall- water ; do a small piece at a time ; have ready a dry coarse cloth, and rub the carpet dry ; so proceed until the whole carpet is cleaned. A few drops of carbonate of am- monia, in a small quantity of warm rain- THE MODEL COOK BOOK -77 water, will change, if carefully applied, dis- colored spots upon carpets, and indeed all spots, whether produced by acids or alkalies. If one has the misfortune to have a carpet injured by whitewash, this will immediately restore it. Another recipe {or cleaning carpets is two and one-half bars Ivory soap, one half-pound powdered borax, one-fourth ounce glycer- ine ; shave soap fine, put in four gallons soft water ; heat till dissolved, then let cool enough to use. Grease on a carpet, if not of long-stand- ing, can be readily disposed of by washing the spot with hot soapsuds and borax — half an ounce of borax to a gallon of water. Use a clean cloth to wash it with, rinse in warm w^ater^ and wipe dry. To Clean Paper=Hangings. Take small pieces of stale bread, about two da3^s old, commence at the top of the room , and with the crustwipelightly downward abouthalf a yard at each stroke, till the upper part of the hang- ings is completely cleaned all around, and so continue until the whole is gone over. This operation, if carefully performed, will frequently make old paper look almost equal to new. Great caution must be used not to rub the paper hard, nor to attempt cleaning it the cross or horizontal way. The dirty part of the bread must each time be cut away, and the piece renewed as often as necessary. To Extract Grease from Papered Walls. — Dip a piece of flannel in spirits of wine, rub the greasy spots gently once or twice, and the grease will disappear. Oil=Marks on wall-paper, or the marks where inconsiderate people rest their heads, are a sore grief to good housekeepers, but they can be removed without much trouble. Take pipe-clay or fuller's earth and make it into a paste about as thick as rich cream with cold water ; lay it on the stain genth- , without rubbing it in ; leave it on all night. It will be dry by morning, when it can be brushed off, and, unless an old stain, the grease-spots will have disappeared. If old, renew the application. To Remove Stains in Tables. — Wash the surface with stale beer or vinegar ; the stains may then be removed by rubbing them with a rag dipped in spirits of salts. To re- polish, proceed as you would do with new work. If the work ])e not stained, wash the surface with clean .spirits of turpentine, and repolish it with furniture oil. To Clean Paint, smear it over with whiting

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.