Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-10-30
Domestic Recipes for Blockade
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To MAKE FAMILY SoAP.-Take six
pounds of bar soap, one quarter OF
pound of sal soda, three teaspoonfull spir.
It's turpentine, one and half teaspoonsiull
of camphor, two teaspoonstull Of salt.
Cut the soap up fine, boil the water and
add all the ingredients, and boil 80 min
utcs, take off and pour into shallow yes
sells to cool and harden.
AsorHER--5 pounds bar soap, pounds
sal soda, , oz. boraX, and II oz. hartshorn.
Dissolve in % quarts of soft water and
boil | ) or 20 minutes.
To MAKE JELLY SoAr-Af.cr pouring
out Of the vessel the above soaps, pour
il, water enough 10 wa<l, OF the sides and
l",lom and 'oiI 20 minutes. Then pour
oil TO cool, and sou have elegant jelly
soap for washing clothes, etc.
10 MAxE Sorr SoAp.--Iakc 10 lbs.
potash well pulverized, Is lbs. grease,
and three buckets boiling water. Mix
and stir potash and water together until
dissolved. Then add the grease, stirring
we'll; rut all into Il barrel, and every
morning add two buckets cold watt,
stirring it we'll each time, mtii the barrel
is nearly full or uliNrd /" The CONSISTENCY
of soft soap.
To MAKE BLAcElNc.--put che gallon
of vinegar into stone jug; add one
pound of iyory.black, well !'lilverized;
haIt pound of loafs',sar: haif an ounce
OF oil O! vtriol, and one onnee OF sweet
Gil; incorporate the whole by stirring.
This is a blacking of very great rerute.
A Moulp TO CLEAN CLoruEs FROM
GREAsE.-This is Inc best recei It known
t;ir tie extraction Of grease. Take one
peck OF lime; add thereto as much water
lis will dissolve the lime and leave about
lwp gallons Of clear water. after it has
ncril well stirred and settled. Let it stand
about two hours. snd then pour of the
clear liquid into another vessel. Now
add to it three ounces of pcarash for
every gallon Of the liquid, stir it well,
and, when settled, bottle it for use. This
liquor is To be diluted with water, TO suit
the strength or delicacy Of the colour Of
the cloth. 1t is applied with a piece of
coarse sponge, rubbing out the grease,
and applying clear water afterwards.
M.osEsIA, if you have not French
chalk, will eilectually remove grease spots
from silk, on rubbing it in WELL and after
standing awhile, apply piece of soft
brown paper TO the wrong side, on which
press warm iron genl y, and what grease
ia not absorbed by the paper can be re-
moved by washing the spot carefully with
cold water
Wlcks FOR CASDLEs.-Prepare your
wicks about halt tile usual size, wet wth
spirits of turpentine, put them into the
sun until dry, then mould or dip your
candles. Candles thus made last longer,
and give much clearer light. In fact
they are nearly or quite equal to sperm,
in clearness of light.
To MAKE VIsEeAR-Mix together in
clean kcg three gallons of clear rain Wa.
ter. nllat has been caught in a clean tub
without running over the roof of a house.
one quart of l}'est India molasses, aud
one pint OF hop yeast. Cover it, and set
itina warm place where it will be exposed
to tho sum- Remember to shake the cask
every day. In three. months it will be
excellent vinegar. Then transfer it to
stone Jugs, and keep it closely corSed.