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Julian Booker Thompson recipe and travel book, 1898

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Pumpkin Pie (good) Mrs "Breu"
2 cups pumpkin
2 " milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoon molasses
1/2 teaspoon ginger
2 nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
salt
2 eggs
As colors of all kinds in tub frocks are plentiful, and all tub dresses must be laundered, many are asking how to "set" the colors successfully, so we are reprinting the following:  To begin with, the garments should be soaked in their appropriate solution for several hours. When ready to wash, use a soap paste and wash the garments quickly. Rinse thoroughly and dry in the shade until they are just damp enough to be ironed. For setting red, dissolve a teaspoonful of vitriol in two gallons of cold water; for pink, green, or black, dissolve one-half cup of salt in two quarts of water; for lavender, dissolve one tablespoonful of sugar-of-lead in two gallons of cold water; for blue, which is a fast color if properly treated, dissolve a tablespoonful of alum in two gallons of water and add one-half teacupful of vinegar. Some laundresses follow  this general rule -- salt for the light colors and vinegar for the dark ones, while others use both so as "to be on the safe side," they say.

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Pumpkin Pie (good) Mrs "Breu" 2 cups pumpkin 2 " milk 1/2 cup sugar 2 tablespoon molasses 1/2 teaspoon ginger 2 nutmeg 1 teaspoon cinnamon salt 2 eggs As colors of all kinds in tub frocks are plentiful, and all tub dresses must be laundered, many are asking how to "set" the colors successfully, so we are reprinting the following: To begin with, the garments should be soaked in their appropriate solution for several hours. When ready to wash, use a soap paste and wash the garments quickly. Rinse thoroughly and dry in the shade until they are just damp enough to be ironed. For setting red, dissolve a teaspoonful of vitriol in two gallons of cold water; for pink, green, or black, dissolve one-half cup of salt in two quarts of water; for lavender, dissolve one tablespoonful of sugar-of-lead in two gallons of cold water; for blue, which is a fast color if properly treated, dissolve a tablespoonful of alum in two gallons of water and add one-half teacupful of vinegar. Some laundresses follow this general rule -- salt for the light colors and vinegar for the dark ones, while others use both so as "to be on the safe side," they say.