Tea-Stained Blankets
Dear Aunt Daisy, Listening to your session this morning I heard you advising somebody about tea stains in blankets. Some time ago I had copied into my cookery book a recipe for this very trouble. Here it is: Mix together half a cup each of methylated spirits and peroxide of hydro-
Dissolve one large packet of soap flakes in one and a-half pints of hot water; add a tablespoon of borax. This quantity added to a tub of cold water is sufficient for two blankets. Let them soak all night. Next day, rinse in three waters and hang up to dry without wringing. Here is one for the four blankets. Cut up half a bar of good soap and boil in sufficient water to cover it until the soap has melted. Then add four tablespoons powdered borax, and two tablespoons liquid ammonia. Pour into a tub of cold water and mix well, then put in blankets and leave them to soak overnight. Next day wash them, and rinse in two cold waters. Shake before hanging out, and once or twice while drying. Sometimes with new blankets there is a very unpleasant smell from the raw wool; to help with this bother, try soaking them before washing, with a handful of salt in some cold water; or use a little smaller quantity of baking soda,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 45
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226Tea-Stained Blankets New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 45
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