My Mum used to whiten her unbleached sheets by hanging them out at full moon, when there was a frost. Don’t ask me how, but the combination of frost and lunar beam made them snow white. Old time flour bags were good calico, but all had Champion Roller Flour Mills stamped firmly on them, not a nice sight to behold on a girls knickers when she bent over! So, goodly old Sunlight soap was rubbed on well, the damp bundle wrapped up and left for a few days. Result? After a good boil in the old copper they were snow white, hey presto, no longer labelled. I realise there is no unbleached sheeting, OR knickers made of flour bags, how the modern kids would have hysterics at the thought eh? Good old remedies they were.
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