Agriculture & Livestock Journal March 2001 Nevada Farm Bureau Woman's Committee tidbits... by Kaye Medlin Grandma's Recipe For Washing This is an authentic washday receipt in its orginal spelling, as it was written out for a bride three generations ago. Hang it up in your laundry room and you'll count your blessings as you do your wash. 1. Bild a fire in back yard to heet kettle of rainwater. 2. Set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is pert. 3. Shave on hole cake soup in bilin water. 4. sort things, make 3 piles. 1 pile white, 1 pile cullord, 1 pile work 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. run cullard but don't bile-just rench and starch. 7. take white things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then rench. Blew and starch. 8. spred tee towells on grass. 9. hang old rags on fence. 10. pore rench water on flower bed. 11. scrub porch with the hot soapy water. 12. turn tub upside down. 13 go put on clean dress, smooth hair with side combs. Brew a cup of tea. Set and rest a spell. Rock a spell and count blessins. This is from an old cook book. ************** ~No Matter where you go... There you are~ -Austin Powers-