To clean white Sattins, flowered Silks with Gold and Silver in them

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (3)
  1. Mix stale bread crumbled very fine, with powder blue, rub it very well over the silk or sattin.
  2. Then shake it well, and with clean soft cloths dust it well.
  3. If any gold or silver flowers, afterwards take a piece of crimson in grain velvet, and rub the flowers with it.
Original Text
To clean white Sattins, flowered Silks with Gold and Silver in them. MIX stale bread crumbled very fine, with powder blue, rub it very well over the silk or sattin; then shake it well, and with clean soft cloths dust it well: if any gold or silver flowers, afterwards take a piece of crimson in grain velvet, and rub the flowers with it.
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