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"warshing clothes recipe"

(3 ratings)
Recipe by
Straws Kitchen(*o *)
somewhere, AR

"Warshing Clothes Recipe" Years ago an Alabama grandmother gave a new bride the following recipe: This is an exact copy as written and found in an old scrapbook - spelling errors and all.

(3 ratings)
yield serving(s)
method No-Cook or Other

Ingredients For "warshing clothes recipe"

  • 3 lg
    wash tubs
  • 1
    bar of laundry soap
  • 1 lg
    washboard
  • laundry basket
  • hot and cold water
  • clothes pins and clothesline

How To Make "warshing clothes recipe"

  • 1
    ***WARSHING 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 whole 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 (rinse) 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.
  • 2
    Paste this over your washer and dryer. Next time when you think things are bleak, read it again, kiss YOUR washing machine and dryer, and give thanks.
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