To destroy the Bedstead of Buggs

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
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The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (20)
  1. Set open all doors of the room, closets and cupboard doors, all your draws and boxes.
  2. Hang the rest of your bedding on the chair-backs.
  3. Lay the feather-bed on a table.
  4. Set a large broad earthen pan in the middle of the room.
  5. Set a chafing-dish that stands on feet, full of charcoal well lighted, in the pan.
  6. Add a pound of rolled brimstone if your room is very bad, or half a pound if only a few.
  7. Light the brimstone on the charcoal.
  8. Get out of the room as quick as possible.
  9. Shut your door close, with the blanket over it, and be sure to set it so as nothing can catch fire.
  10. If you have any India pepper, throw it in with the brimstone.
  11. Take care to have the door open whilst you lay in the brimstone, that you may get out as soon as possible.
  12. Don't open the door under six hours.
  13. Be very careful how you go in to open the windows.
  14. Let the door stand open an hour before you open the windows.
  15. Brush and sweep your room very clean.
  16. Wash it well with boiling lee, or boiling water, with a little un-slacked lime in it.
  17. Get a pint of spirits of wine, a pint of spirit of turpentine, and an ounce of camphire.
  18. Shake all well together.
  19. With a brush of feathers wash your bedstead very well.
  20. Sprinkle the rest over the feather-bed, and about the wainscot and room.
Original Text
To destroy the Bedstead of Buggs. the doors of the room, set open all closets and cupboard doors, all your draws and boxes, hang the rest of your bedding on the chair-backs; lay the feather-bed on a table, then set a large broad earthen pan in the middle of the room, and in that set a chafing-dish that stands on feet, full of charcoal well lighted; if your room is very bad, a pound of rolled brimstone; if only a few, half a pound. Let it on the charcoal, and get out of the room as as quick as possible, or it will take away your breath. Shut your door close, with the blanket over it, and be sure to set it so as nothing can catch fire. If you have any India pepper, throw in with the brimstone. You must take care to have the door open whilst you lay in the brimstone, that you may get out as soon as possible. Don't open the door under six hours, and then you must be very careful how you go in to open the windows; therefore let the door stand open an hour before you open the windows. Then brush and sweep your room very clean, wash it well with boiling lee, or boiling water, with a little un-slacked lime in it, get a pint of spirits of wine, a pint of spirit of turpentine, and an ounce of camphire; shake all well together, and with a brush of feathers wash your bedstead very well, and sprinkle the rest over the feather-bed, and about the wainscot and room.
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