Buckeye Cookery

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

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TO PRESERVE STEEL PENS

Steel pens are destroyed by corrosion from acid in the ink. Put in the ink some nails or old steel pens, and the acid will exhaust itself on them, and the pens in use will not corrode. TO KEEP RUSSIA IRON PIPE OR STOVES during the summer: Give them a good coat of coal-oil all over, and put away in a dry place. In the fall give it a fresh coat of oil or benzine, and rub it all off clean and dry.

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