Wine Stain Remover for Table Linen

Ingredients

• a soup plate of water
• a lemon
• boiled milk

Method

1. 1

   Place a soup plate under the stain and squeeze lemon juice or pour boiled milk over it.

2. 2

   After five minutes, wash out with water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete Indian housekeeper & cook (1898) by Flora Annie Webster Steel, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a soup plate of water. This keeps out the air effectually. If the butter is kept actually in the water, the latter should always have salt or boracic acid in it, and be changed every day. 4. Coffee, to make Essence of.— For every two tablespoons of ground coffee take one breakfast cup of cold water. Place in a wide-mouthed jar and stand all night. Place the jar in n dtychi of water, and let the whole come to boiling point Strain and bottle. It will keep for a week, the aildition of an etpial quantity Housekeeper and Cook 79 of boiling water making it hot enough to use. Similar essence may be made in any macliine by adhering to the same proportions of coffee and water. 5. Glass, to clean. — Wash in warm water with bdsun (parched gram flour) mixed to a paste with water, and use like soap. Rinse well, and polish. The stains or rims in neglected water carafes, decanters, &c., are best removed by a few drops of strong hydro- chloi'ic, or, at a pinch, sulphuric acid in a tumbler of water. This should be poured into the carafe and well shaken. Rinse thoroughly in clean water, as the acid bites into the glass. 6. Plate, to clean. — Powder, mix, and bottle four ounces each of common salt, alum, and cream of tartar. Add a teaspoon of this mixture to every quart of water. Boil the plate in the water for five minutes. Remove and plunge in cold water. Dry aiad polish, using a little powdered chalk tied in a muslin bag, and dusted over the silver during the final polish. Elbow-grease is the only secret of bright plate. Every now and again wash with Sapolio. 7. Table Linen, to remove Wine Stains from.— Put a soup plate under the stain while wet and squeeze a lemon or pour boiled milk

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