3229. Plate Cleaning Powder

3229.    Plate Cleaning Powder. For cleaning silver and plated articles, etc.. Mix 1/4 pound jeweler's rouge with £ pound prepared chalk. Or: 1/4 pound levigated putty powder, 1/2 pound burnt hartshorn, 1 pound prepared chalk, and 1 ounce rose-pink.

3230. To Clean Silver

3230.    To Clean Silver. To clean silver, mix 2 tea-spoonfuls of ammonia in a quart of hot soap-suds. Put in the silverware and wash it, using an old nail-brush or tooth-brush for the purpose.

3231. To Clean Silver and Silver Plated Articles

3231. To Clean Silver and Silver Plated Articles. Boil 1 ounce finely powdered and calcined hartshorn in 1 quart water, and while on the fire, insert the articles, as many as the vessel will hold; leave them in a short time, then take them out, and dry them over a fire; when all the articles have been thus treated, put into the solution clean woolen rags; when they are saturated, hang them up to dry. These will be excellent for polishing the silver, as well as for cleaning brass door-knobs, etc..

3232. To Preserve the Polish on Silver

3232.     To Preserve the Polish on Silver. Wash it twice a week (if in daily use) with soft soap and hot water, and polish with Canton flannel. (See next receipt.)

3233. To Clean Silver Ornaments

3233.     To Clean Silver Ornaments. Boil them in soft soap and water for five minutes; then put them in a basin with the same hot soap and water, and scrub them gently with a very soft brush while hot; then rinse and dry with a linen rag. Heat a piece of common unglazed earthenware, or a piece of brick or tile in the fire; take it off, and place the ornaments upon it for the purpose of drying them, and causing every particle of moisture to evaporate; as the moisture, which otherwise would remain on the silver, will cause it to tarnish, or assume a greenish hue.

3234. To Clean Silver

3234. To Clean Silver. Moisten some finely powdered whiting or Paris white with spirits of hartshorn, rub the silver into it, let it dry, then rub it off with a soft cloth and polish it with chamois leather. Some kinds of silver soap keep silver looking nicely, but many of them are chemical compounds that injure the silver.

3235. To Clean Silver Plate

3235.    To Clean Silver Plate. Whit-ing finely powdered and moistened with a little sweet oil is excellent to clean silver. Let the mixture dry on, then rub it off with a soft linen cloth and polish with chamois leather. This gives silver a beautiful white appearance, and if well done the silver will keep clean a long time.

3236. To Remove Ink Stains from Silver

3236.    To Remove Ink Stains from Silver. The tops and other portions of silver inkstands frequently become deeply discolored with ink, which is difficult to remove by ordinary means. It may, however, be completely eradicated by making a little chloride of lime into a paste with water, and rubbing it upon the stains.