Whitening Unbleached Sheets

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 107, 11 July 1941, Page 46

Whitening Unbleached Sheets

Dear Aunt Daisy, Would you please tell me how to whiten unbleached sheets? And could you let me have a recipe for a sponge, and a steamed pudding, which have some wholemeal added to the white flour? Mrs. R. J. (Ohakune). Any ordinary recipe for steamed pudding or cake can be made with wholemeal instead of white flour; or you may use half and half, or almost any proportion. I will give a One Egg Wholemeal Sponge, which is quite good. One Egg Wholemeal Sponge.-Sift together, several times, one breakfast cup of fine wholemeal and 1 teacup of sugar. Make a hole in the middle, and

pour in 1 tablespoon of melted buttér | and 1 large egg well beaten. Then wash out the egg basin with 4 to 6 tablespoons of cold water-enough to mix. Beat till smooth and bubbly. Stir in slowly 1 heaped teaspoon of baking powder. Bake in sandwich tins about 20 minutes, Wholemeal Pudding.- Two large breakfast cups of wholemeal; 3 moderate tablespoons of raw sugar; 2 medium teaspoons of baking powder; the grated rind of a lemon; 2 good tablespoons of butter; 2 eggs or I if they are scarce; and 1 breakfast cup of liquid-milk, or milk and ,water. Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg alternately with the flour and the milk, as usual. Fruit and spices may be added, or you may put jam at the bottom. Put into a greased basin and steam about 21/2 hours. This pudding may also be baked about one hour, if liked, and served with a good sauce. Unbleached Sheets.-Here is a proven method of getting your unbleached sheets white after a few washings. It is important not to "blue" them-the "blueing" has the very opposite effect jon unbleached material-it makes it stay yellowish,

First of all, soak the sheets in cold water with a handful of Epsom Salts thrown in, leaving, them in the tubs all day and all night. The salts will take the dressing out. Next day, after putting them through the wringer twice, put the sheets in a copper of cold water, and add two tablespoons of turpentine. Bring to the boil, and allow to boil for quarter of an hour. Rinse twice in clear, cold water, with NO blue, then peg out. The sheets after this treatment should be a lovely cream colour, and come nearly white in the next wash. Once they are perfectly white, blue may be used in the normal manner.