Domestic Arts
January 4th, 2001While I was home this Christmas, my mother used her mother’s linen for a pre-holiday party. When she pulled the linen from the closet, she realized that it had last been pressed by my grandmother who has been dead for 12 years. Grandma used the following all-but-lost technique:
- wash linen
- line dry
- sprinkle linen with water (she used something like a large salt shaker for this)
- roll linen tightly in towels
- refrigerate overnight
- iron the next day with a very hot iron
The linen story inspired me to search out the following links. I will put some tech stuff up soon. Just want to be a luddite for a day.
- FreeRecipe
http://www.freerecipe.org
Free Recipes From The Early 1900s - Old Fashioned Advice
http://www.freerecipe.org/Old_Fashioned_Advice/
Also from the FreeRecipe people, this site has advice on such topics as jelly making, the use of sour milk and thrift in cooking.
Vacations always make me feel sort of Little House.