1908 The World's Drinks and How to Miw Them by Hon Wm Boothby (1st edition)

118

USEFUL l•'ORMULAS.

The following will also make, an oilcloth look well. Wash it once a mont h with skim-milk and water in equal quantities, or rub it once in three months with boiled linseed oil, putting on very little, and rubbiug it in well with a rag, then polish with an old silk rag.

503

TO CLEAN OLD MARBLE. Take a bullock's gall, one gill of soap suds and half a gill of turpentine, make into a paste with pipe clay; apply it to the marble, let it dry a day or two, then rub it off. If very dirty give a second application.

504

TO CLEAN SILVER. Wet whiting with liquid hartshorn, and t his will remove black spots, or boil half an ounce of pulverized har tsborn in a pint of water and pour on to rags, dry them and use to cleanse sil ver. P olish with wash leather.

505 TO CLEAN SILVERWARE. Save wat er in which potatoes have been boiled with a little salt. Let it 'become sour, which it will do in a few days; heat, a ud wash the article wit h a woolen cloth, rinse in clean wat er, dry with chamois leather ; never use soap . Polish with an old linen rag. Silverware when not in use keeps best if wr apped in blue tissue paper. TO CORR.ECT SOURNESS IN WINE. Put in a bag the root of a wild horseradish cut in bits. Let it down in the wine and leave it t here two days; take it out and put in fresh r oot, r epeat– ing the same until the desideratum is acquired. A bag of wheat will have t he same effect wher e the ~e is but slightly affected. 506

507

TO CURE CORNS. Supercarbonate of soda, one ounce, :finely pulverized, and mixed witb h::i.lf an ounce of lard. Apply on a lipen ralffe every- night qntil cu:red,