How to clean Gold or Silver Lace

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (1)
Instructions (5)
  1. Put alabaster finely beaten and fierced into an earthen pipkin, and set it on a chafing-dish of coals, and let it boil for some time, stirring it often with a stick first.
  2. When it begins to boil, it will be very heavy; when it is enough, you will find it in the stirring very light; then take it off the fire.
  3. Lay your lace upon a piece of flannel, and strew your powder upon it.
  4. Knock it well in with a hard cloth brush.
  5. When you think it is enough, brush the powder out with a clean brush.
Original Text
How to clean Gold or Silver Lace. PUT alabaster finely beaten and fierced into an earthen pipkin, and set it on a chafing-dish of coals, and let it boil for some time, stirring it often with a stick first; when it begins to boil, it will be very heavy; when it is enough, you will find it in the stirring very light; then take it off the fire, lay your lace upon a piece of flannel, and strew your powder upon it; knock it well in with a hard cloth brush: when you think it is enough, brush the powder out with a clean brush.
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