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Arts, Craft & Skills 1867 Washing Fluid & Washday Advice Washing Fluid – Saving Half the Washboard Labor 1 lb. Sal-soda Boil a short time, stirring occasionally. Then let it settle and pour off the clear fluid into a stone jug and cork for use. Soak your white clothes over night in simple water. Wring out and soap wristbands, collars and dirty or stained places. Have your boiler half filled with water and when at scalding heat put in one common tea-cup of the fluid. Stir and put in your clothes and boil for half an hour. Now rub lightly through one suds only, rinsing well in the bluing water as usual and all is complete. Washday Advice – If you wish to wash on Monday, put warm suds to the clothes whilst breakfast is being got ready. Then wring out and soap as the recipe says (will do just as well as soaking them over night). For each additional boiler of clothes add half a cup of the fluid only, of course boiling in the same water through the whole washing. If more water is needed in the boiler for the last clothes, dip it from the sudsing tub. Soak your woolen and calico in the suds from which you have washed the white clothes whilst hanging them out, dipping in some of the boiling water from the boiler, if necessary. Then wash out the woolen and calico as usual—of course, washing out woolen goods before you do the calico. The fluid brightens instead of fading the colors in calico. The plan not only saves the two rubbings which women give their clothes before boiling and more than half of the soap—does not injure the clothes but saves their wear in two rubbings before boiling and is a good article for removing grease from floors, doors, and windows and to remove tar or grease from the hands, etc. Every lady into whose
hands this recipe may fall should give this a trial. It does not
rot clothes but makes them wash full or more than one-half easier
than the old way.
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