Ley And Soda Preparation For Washing Clothes.

To sixteen gallons of water, put one gallon of lime water; twelve ounces

of soft soap, or if hard soap it must be first melted, and four ounces

of soda, put them together in your wash kettle, and when nearly boiling,

put in the clothes, being careful to have them as much of a kind as

possible, they should be wet first with common water, boil one hour,

then wash, scald and blue as usual. The limestone should remain in the

water at least four days before it is used, and be about of the strength

of lime-water for drinking, and the same stone will do for several times

if good. The ley will do for boiling a second set of clothes by adding a

little more, and afterwards for towels and coarse things. Prints and

flannels must not be boiled.