1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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Or dissolve 1 ounce pure silver in aqua-fortis and precipitate it with common salt ; and add, after wash- ing, 6 ounces common salt, 3 ounces each of san- dever and white vitriol, and J ounce of sublimate. These are to be ground into a paste, upon a fine stone, with a muller. The substance to be silvered must be rubbed over with a sufficient quantity of the paste and exposed to a proper degree of heat. When the silver runs, it is taken from the fire and dipped into weak spirits of salts, to clean it. Have a preparation made from 2 tablespoonfuls alcohol, 2 tablespoonfuls turpentine, J pound brown soap, cut fine and mixed in 1 quart hot water. Pour the same into a large tub of boiling water, and allow the clothes to soak for 20 minutes. Then take them out and put them in a tub of clean cold water for 20 minutes. Afterward boil them in a like quantity of the above preparation for 20 minutes, and rinse in cold water. K.B. — In using the above method of washing, all fine clothes should be gone through with first, as coloured, very dirty, or greasy clothes ought not to be boiled with those of finer fabric and containing less dirt, as the water in which they afre boiled must of course partake more or less of its contents. The same water that has been used for the finer clothes will likewise do for the coarse and coloured. Should the wristbands of the shirts be very dirty, a little soap may be previously rubbed on. The above is a very excellent receipt, and may be confided in as particularly efi:ective in labour-saving. No. 493. A method of Washing occupying one hour.