Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

To Make Common Starch

Mix a pint of wheat flour with cold water, till it is the consistence of batter, stir it into a gallon of boiling water, let it boil a few minutes, when strain it and mix in the blue—when it is ready to thin for white clothes. Some put a small piece of tallow in the starch as it boils—it makes it clearer.