Clothes washing recipe
Source of Recipe
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Recipe Introduction
First thing each morning --- you should run and hug your washer
and dryer, also your toilet---those two-holers used to get mighty cold!
For you nonsoutherners - wrench means rinse.
List of Ingredients
Years ago an Alabama grandmother gave the new bride
thefollowing recipe:
This is an exact copy as written and found in an old
scrapbook-with spelling errors and all.
Recipe
WASHING CLOTHES
Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water.
Set tubs
so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert. Shave one
hole
cake of lie soap in boilin water.
Sort things, make 3 piles
1 pile white,
1 pile colored,
1 pile work britches and rags.
To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth,
then thin
down with boiling water.
Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub
hard, and
boil, then rub colored don't boil just wrench and
starch.
Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle,
then wrench,
and starch.
Hang old rags on fence.
Spread tea towels on grass.
Pore wrench water in flower bed.
Scrub porch with hot soapy water. Turn tubs upside
down.
Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs.
Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your
blessings.
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