The ladies best companion; or, a golden treasure for the fair sex. Containing the whole arts of cookery ... With plain instructions for making English wines ... To which is added The art of preserving beauty ... / by Amelia Chambers. To which are added Every lady her own and family's physician ... also The family instructor ... And a great variety of other articles too numerous to be inserted in a title page.

  • Chambers, Amelia.
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[1800?]
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Credit: The ladies best companion; or, a golden treasure for the fair sex. Containing the whole arts of cookery ... With plain instructions for making English wines ... To which is added The art of preserving beauty ... / by Amelia Chambers. To which are added Every lady her own and family's physician ... also The family instructor ... And a great variety of other articles too numerous to be inserted in a title page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mix fome water with allom and white tartar, and rub them well in it. If you obferve this method they wifi not only be clean, but the colour will be preferved from fading, and you mull dry them in a fhady place. f0 take Spots of Lik or Wine out of Cloth or Linen. Rub the juice of lemon on the fpots, and when it is dry let it be wafhed in warm water. If you do fo twice, the fpots will difappear, in cloth, but if it is linen, put fome boiling water into a pewter pot, hold that part that has the fpot, tight together over the Iteam, then rub it with the juice of lemon, and the fpots will, difappear. fo keep Silk from fv.ining in nxajhing. Fill a fauce pan with water, and let it hand on the fire till it is partly hot, then dilfolve in it a proper quantity ©f Caftile foap, then take it off the fire and when it is almoft cold, put to it handful of fullers earth, and fcour your filk with it. Be fure to let them be fpread out, for if they are laid in heaps together, it will l'poil them. fo keep Linen not ufed, from receiving any Damage; When it is wafhed and well dried, fold it up in the neatefl manner, fcatter between each of the foldings powder of cedar wood ; and let the trunk, drawer, or box, be perfumed with florax. fo take Spots out of Boards or large fables. Make fome lye of wood afhes, and put in it a few galls, then lay it on the fpots, and let it lie on them one night, in the morning rub the boards or tables with a hard brulh, but if it is on the floor you do it on your knees. Take care you rub it with the grain, and at the fecond fcouring, pat onit a handfui of fine fand, and rub it over with a woolen cloth till none of the lpots can be fee«. When you have brought them to a fine tranf- parent