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Famous Chemical Washing Recipe

Take a quarter of a pound of soap, a quarter of a pound of soda, and a quarter of a pound of quick-lime. Cut up the soap, and dissolve it in one quart of boiling water; pour one quart of boiling water over the soda, and three quarts of boiling water upon the quick-lime. The lime must be quick and fresh; if it is good, it will bubble up, on pouring the hot water upon it. Each must be prepared in separate vessels. The lime must settle so as to leave the water on top perfectly clear; then strain it carefully (not disturbing the settlings) into the wash-boiler with the soda and soap; let it scald long enough to dissolve the soap; then add six gallons of soap water. The clothes must be put in soak over night, after rubbing soap upon the dirtiest parts of them. After having the above in readiness, wring out the clothes which have been put in soak, put them on to boil, and let each lot boil half an hour; the same water will answer for the whole washing. After boiling each lot half an hour, drain them from the boiling water, put them in a tub, and pour upon them two or three pailfuls of clear, hot water; after this they will want but very little rubbing; then rinse them through two waters, blueing the last. When dried, they will be a beautiful white. After washing the cleanest part of the white clothes, take two pails of the suds in which they have been washed, put it over the fire and scald, and this will wash all the flannels and colored clothes, without any extra soap. The white flannels, after being well washed in the suds, will require to be scalded by turning on a teakettle of boiling water.

This Washing Recipe has been used in the family of the Publisher for several months, and he knows it to be all that it professes to be. There is no humbug or deception about it. It is richly worth five times the price of this book, and we have no fears that Ladies will highly value it, if they only try it-using care to follow the directions exactly.