Tired of hi-tech? Try Grandma's receet!
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Grandma Mills' Receet
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1. build fire in backyard to het kettle of rain water
2. set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is peurt
3. shave 1 hole cake lie sope in bilin water
4. sort things. make 3 piles, 1 pile white, 1 pile cullord, 1 pile werk
briches and rags
5. stur flour in cold water to smooth then thin down with bilin water
6. rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard then bile, rub cullord but don't
bile just rench and starch
7. take white things out of kettle with broom stick handel then rench,
blew and starch
8. spred the towels on grass
9. hang old rags on fence
10. pore rench water in flower bed
11. scrub porch with hot sopy water
12. turn tubs upside down
13. go put on clean dress. smooth hair with side combs. brew cup of tee.
set and rest and rock a spell and count blessins.
- Nadine Mills Coleman
in "The 65 Magazine"