Washing Fluid Recipe from a Sister
A SISTER sends the following, which she says is an excellent recipe for washing fluid:— One box Babbitt’s or other potash; 1 oz. salts tartar; 1 oz. powdered ammonia: dissolve in one gallon of warm soft water. Put the potash in first. After it has cooled, add the salts, tartar, and ammonia, and can up. Soak the clothes in cold water three or four hours or overnight, wring out and put in a boiler of water, to which has been added one half of a bar of soap, shaved, and one-half cup of the fluid. Boil the clothes fifteen or twenty minutes. The clothes need no rubbing until after they have been boiled. I have used this fluid for seven years, and I like it well. It does not injure nor yellow the clothes. Do not soak nor boil colored clothes.