To Make Clothes Beautifully White
From The household gas cookery book, 1900
Serves 1
Presented as published in 1900. 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 household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 134. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To Make Clothes Beautifully White, never put soap in the first water, but dissolve some soda in boil- . ing water, filling up the bath with cold or lukewarm water. Soak the clothes in this for a time, and then wash them with plain yellow soap, and boil them with about two ounces of lump borax
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