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To Scour Copper

From A bachelors cupboard, 1906

This method can restore old copper pieces.

Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bachelors cupboard (1906) by A. Lyman Phillips, page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To scour copper take two tablespoonfuls of bath brick dust and one tablespoonful of baking soda and mix thoroughly. Dampen a cloth in gasolene or coal oil, dip in the mix- ture and polish with that. Afterward polish with chamois skin

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