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TO  CLEAN  SILK
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TO CLEAN SILK

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Ingredients

  • one quart of cold water
  • a pint of alcohol
  • three potatoes

Directions

1

Take two or three potatoes, pare and cut in small pieces, and put on one quart of cold water. When perfectly cooked, strain off the water carefully, and add to it half a pint of alcohol. Sponge the silk both sides, and iron it between muslins with hot irons, and iron it dry.

By Keokuk (Iowa). Westminster Presbyterian church · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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