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Greasers for Bake-irons.
Take pieces of fat from the back bone, or chine of pork; cut them in pieces of
half a pound each; leave the skin on; salt them. They will do to grease the
bake-iron where you have buckwheat cakes every morning in winter, and should be
kept in a cool place; after remaining in salt several weeks, they may be hung up
in an airy place. This is nicer than suet.
Cement for the Tops of Bottles or Jars.
Take equal parts of rosin and brick-dust pounded fine; a lump of beeswax; stew
them together, and keep in an old tin, melting it when you want to seal your
bottles or jars.
Cement for Mending Cast-iron.
To mend a crack or sand hole in an iron pot, beat up the white of an egg, and
mix equal weight of salt and sifted ashes; work it very smooth and fill up the
crack, let it harden before it is used. If it is a large sand hole you wish to
mend, put in a rivet and secure it with the cement, if it gets loose it is
easily fastened by the same process.
Weather Proof Cement.
Take of fine sand one part, two of clay, three of ashes; mix with linseed oil to
the consistency required. Put it on with a towel or brush. It is said to become
as hard as marble.
To Cleanse Vials.
Put ashes and water in each one, and boil them in water, letting them heat
gradually. Pie plates may be cleansed in the same way.
Iron pots that have been
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