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The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking

CHAPTER XII
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Then add the grease, and, when melted, pour all into a tight barrel.

Fill it up with boiling water, and for a week, stir daily for five or ten minutes.

It will gradually become like jelly.
TO PURIFY SINKS AND DRAINS.
To one pound of common copperas add one gallon of boiling water, and use when dissolved.

The copperas is poison, and must never be left unmarked.
FURNITURE POLISH.
Mix two tablespoonfuls of sweet or linseed oil with a tablespoonful of turpentine, and rub on with a piece of flannel, polishing with a dry piece.
TO KEEP EGGS.
Be sure that the eggs are fresh.

Place them points down in a stone jar or tight firkin, and pour over them the following brine, which is enough for a hundred and fifty:-- One pint of slacked lime, one pint of salt, two ounces of cream of tartar, and four gallons of water.


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