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the pulp from the top; pour water on the starch that has settled, and stir it
up; let it settle again, when it will be nice and white, and may be put on
plates to dry in the sun; after which it may be put away in a box or paper bags.
It may be used immediately. Stir it in boiling water as other starch, but boil
it much less. It is said that potato starch will injure muslins when left to lay
by for some time; it is used in some preparations of confectionary, and answers
the same purpose as Poland starch.
To make Common Starch.
Mix a pint of wheat flour with cold water, till it is the consistence of batter;
stir it into a gallon of boiling water; let it boil a few minutes, when strain
it and mix in the blue--when it is ready to thin for white clothes. Some put a
small piece of tallow in the starch as it boils--it makes it clearer.
Washing Calicoes.
Calicoes may be kept from fading by washing them in the suds after white
clothes; if it requires more soap, stir it in the water, as putting it on the
garment will fade it; have the water moderately warm, and put in a handful of
salt; when all the dirt is out, rinse them in clean water; starch, and hang them
to dry on the wrong side, where they will get the air but not the sun. Alum is
good to set colors. If you want to wash a calico dress, which you know will
fade, make a corn mush, and as it boils, pour off half, which use as soap in
washing the dress, and with the other half, (which should be boiled well,)
starch it, and hang it out immediately.
In washing bed quilts, to prevent fading,
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