To Wash Muslin Blouses

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoonful starch
• 2 tablespoonfuls cold water
• IJ pints boiling water
• 1 tablespoonful vinegar
• 1 quart rinsing water
• 1 teaspoonful methylated spirits
• 1 gallon of rinsing water

Method

1. 1

   Swill in cold water, knead in warm soapy lather, boil if white.

2. 2

   Rinse in warm, cold, and blue water.

3. 3

   Starch with prepared starch and iron.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 203. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Wash Muslin Blouses. Begin and finish right off, as muslin thickens if left long wet. Swill well in cold water to get rid of dust, and squeeze dry. Don’t wring, or you will stretch and break the muslin. Knead in warm, soapy lather till clean. Then put in pan with cold water softened with soap and borax, and, if white muslin, boil 10 minutes. Rinse in warm water, then cold, then in light blue water, and while stiU wet, starch in clean starch made as follows : — 1 tablespoonful starch mixed smooth in 2 tablespoonfuls cold water. Pour over IJ pints boiling water, stirring rapidly all the time. Starch when cooled a little, squeeze dry as possible, place m clean cloth, roll well with rolling- pinto absorb any superfluous starch, and iron. For blue and mauve muslins, add 1 tablespoonful vinegar to 1 quart rinsing water. For yellow muslins, add 1 teaspoonful methylat^ spirits to 1 quart rins- ing water. For black and white muslins, green or red, use 1 table- spoonful salt to each gallon of rinsing water

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