Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

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SILVER POLISH FOR SHIRTS

One ounce each of isinglass and borax, one tea-spoon white glue, two tea-spoons white of an egg. Cook well in two quarts of fine starch. Starch in this and dry. Before ironing, apply some of it to the bosom and cuffs with a cloth till well dampened. Iron at once with a hot glossing iron.

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