Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1912 — Recipe for Making Starch. [ARTICLE]

Recipe for Making Starch.

One tablespoouful of starch, sufficient cold water to make it like cream, half a teaspoonful of borax, and a piece of candle or wax. Pour on boiling water, stirring all the time, until the starch Is cooked and looks semitransparent. Prlnti, laces, muslins are generally done in boiled starch. After they are starched they must be dried. Articles done In cold starch must be dried before starching, but not aft'er. Articles done in boiled starch need not be dried before, but must be dried after starching. Hanging laces or Muslins in the open air after starching is liable to make them limp unless it Is a good drying day.