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To Extract Grease from Cloth

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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. one ounce cf sulphuric ether
  2. an ounce of oil of bergamot
  3. a glass stopped bottle

Method

  1. For removing grease from cloth the following is infallible: To half a pint of pure alcohol add ten grains of carbonate of potash, half an ounce of oil of bergamot, and one ounce cf sulphuric ether;
  2. mix and keep in a glass stopped bottle.
  3. Apply with a piece of sponget soaking the cloth thoroughly when the grease is not recent.

Plating

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Credit

From Ladies' home cook book (1896), printed page 192, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ladieshomecookb00harlgoog

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.