Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1913 — Use for Burnt Toast. [ARTICLE]

Use for Burnt Toast.

Crushed toast crumbs would appear a little bizarre as a cleaning agent nowadays. To grill a slice of bread until it was scorched, and then to pound it in a bowl or a mortar to a fine powder, was, however, a touch of economy, which was more than justified when the day came for clean, ing drawing room or dining room, and gilt ornaments showed a lack luster which required attention. Toast crumbs were rubbed over the metal with a piece of flannel. The gilt ornamentation was afterward brushed with a plate brush over the surface, the crumb brightener being supposed to give a polish which could not be secured by any other tn caps