Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts, in All the Useful And Domestic Arts;
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To make Sapouacemis Lye for Washing. Boil together in a suflBcient quantity of water, 1 gall, of good wood-ashes and 2 or 3 handfuls of fresh-burnt lime. Leave the lixivium at rest till the extraneous matters have been deposited at the bottom, or thrown to the surface to be skimmed off. Then draw off the pure lixivium, add to it oil, to about a thirtieth or fortieth part of its own quantity. The mixture will be a liquor white as milk, capable of frothing like soap-water, and in dilution with wa...ter perfectly fit to communicate BuflBcient whiteness to linen. This liquor may be prepared from wood-ashes of all sorts, and from rancid grease, oil or butter. It is therefore highly worthy the attention of the economist. AVhen the ashes are suspected to be unusually deficient in alkali, a small addition of pulverized potash or soda may be made to the lixivium. To Clean and Starch Point Lace. Fix the lace in a prepared tent, draw it straight, make a warm lather of Castile soap, and, with a fine brush dipped in, rub over the point gently; and when it is clean on one side do the same to the other; then throw some clean water on it, in which a little alum has been dissolved, to take off the suds, and having some thin starch go over with the same on the wrong side, and iron it on the same side when dry, then open it with a bod- kin and set it in order.
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