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Grandma's Washday "Receet"
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Years ago, a Kentucky grandmother gave a new bride the following
"receet" for washing clothes. It has turned up again in my Mother's papers. It appears below, just as it was written, and despite the spelling, has a bit of philosophy: |
- bilt fire in backyard to heet kettle of rain water.
- set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is pert.
- shave one hole cake lie soap in bilin water.
- sort things, make three piles. 1 pile white, 1 pile cullord,
1 pile work britches and rags.
- stir flour in cold water to smooth, then thin down with
bilin water.
- rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, then bile. rub
cullord, don't bile, just rench in starch.
- take white things out of kettle with broomstick handle,
then rench, blew and starch.
- spread tee towels on grass.
- hang old rags on fence.
- pore rench water in flour bed.
- scrub porch with hit soapy water.
- turn tubs upside down.
- go put on clean dress, smooth hair with side combs,
brew cup of tee, set and rest and rock a spell
and count blessins.
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