To Clean Plate
From À la mode cookery, 1902
For occasional use, place camphor gum among silver to prevent tarnishing.
Presented as published in 1902. 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 À la mode cookery (1902) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To Clean Plate (A Silversmith's Recipe for Cleaning Plate) Take a little rouge and mix with spirits of wine, put it in a saucer. Place some on the silver with a pointed stick and rub briskly whilst it is wet with a clean piece of rag, and polish it finally with a leather. The success of cleaning plate well depends on the way the powder is used, which should be very sparingly. Plate should be washed in the hottest of boiling water, with a little soda and fine whitening made into a paste with a little methylated spirit, and then put on with a soft flannel ; rinsing in cold water, drying, and polishing with a buft' and afterwards with a selvyt cloth or wash-leather, is about the best way. Of course, rubbing it on the palm of the hand and with the finger and thumb till the silver feels quite hot polishes the plate best, but if the servant has a damp hand it is impossible to polish it, and it becomes dull and smudgy. Where the hand is damp, it is a good plan to take an old knife-board with the emery-cloth MISCELLANEOUS 2 3 I worn off, cover it with flannel and then with a piece of chamois-leather, and rub it hard on this ; but, of course, the inside bowls of spoons cannot be rubbed in this way. I always have all my silver boiled in the copper three times a year with a small handful of hartshorn powder
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