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From: Nataqua News, Serving The North Slopes of the Sierra Nevada & Beyond
Volume 19
To Mend Cracks In A Stove
Take 3 teasponful's salt and 1 pint wood ashes, mix to a stiff paste with water; fill the cracks with this past while stove is hot, and when it becomes dry it will be as hard as cement.
SCALD Brooms
by dipping for a minute or two in boiling soap-suds. Do this once s week and it will keep them tough and flexible and prove a saving in both carpets and brooms.
TO ClEAN KNIVES
Apply the bath brick or finely shaved common brick with the freshly cut half of a Irish potato. The juice of the potato will assist in polishing the steel. Use charcoal powder for polishing. 'This will not wear out the blades.
TO WASH DISHES:
Fill the dish-pan half full of very hot water and to that quantity add 1/2 or 2/3 cupful of sweet milk. It softens the hardest water, gives the dishes a clear bright look, and keeps the hands from roughening by the use of soap. It cleans the greasiest dishes without leaving the water covered with a scum. Kettles and pans that have had meat cooked in them should be half-filled with hot water and set back on the stove (a little ammonia in the water will help) pour this out when ready and washing hot milk and water. An easy method. To save still father trouble wash the dishes as above, rinse in very hot water, lay a soft towel in the bottom of a large milk-pan or broad, shallow willow basket and pack the dishes in this to drain. At meal time bring out the basket and set the table, being careful that there are no rough streaks on the china for sensitive finger-tips to feel. Wipe knives, forks and spoons as usual.
Volume 19
To Mend Cracks In A Stove
Take 3 teasponful's salt and 1 pint wood ashes, mix to a stiff paste with water; fill the cracks with this past while stove is hot, and when it becomes dry it will be as hard as cement.
SCALD Brooms
by dipping for a minute or two in boiling soap-suds. Do this once s week and it will keep them tough and flexible and prove a saving in both carpets and brooms.
TO ClEAN KNIVES
Apply the bath brick or finely shaved common brick with the freshly cut half of a Irish potato. The juice of the potato will assist in polishing the steel. Use charcoal powder for polishing. 'This will not wear out the blades.
TO WASH DISHES:
Fill the dish-pan half full of very hot water and to that quantity add 1/2 or 2/3 cupful of sweet milk. It softens the hardest water, gives the dishes a clear bright look, and keeps the hands from roughening by the use of soap. It cleans the greasiest dishes without leaving the water covered with a scum. Kettles and pans that have had meat cooked in them should be half-filled with hot water and set back on the stove (a little ammonia in the water will help) pour this out when ready and washing hot milk and water. An easy method. To save still father trouble wash the dishes as above, rinse in very hot water, lay a soft towel in the bottom of a large milk-pan or broad, shallow willow basket and pack the dishes in this to drain. At meal time bring out the basket and set the table, being careful that there are no rough streaks on the china for sensitive finger-tips to feel. Wipe knives, forks and spoons as usual.
