Buckeye Cookery

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

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TO CLEAR CISTERN WATER

Add two ounces powdered alum and two ounces borax to a twenty barrel cistern of rain-water that is blackened or oily, and in a few hours the sediment will settle, and the water be clarified and fit for washing and even for cooking purposes.

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