NOT AUTOMATIC, BUT LOOK AT THIS

remember a washer with a ringer. Excuse me while I go to the laundry room and hug my washer and dryer.

' Washing Clothes Recipe' -- imagine having a recipe for this ! ! ! Years ago an Alabama grandmother gave the new bride the following recipe:

This is an exact copy as written and found in an old scrapbook - with spelling errors and all.

WASHING CLOTHES

Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water. Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert. Shave one hole cake of lie soap in boilin water.

Sort things, make 3 piles
1 pile white,
1 pile colored,
1 pile work britches and rags. To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with boiling water.

Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and boil, then rub colored don't boil just wrench and starch.

Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then wrench, and starch.

Hang old rags on fence.

Spread tea towels on grass.

Give the kids a good scrubdown in the wrench water tub.

Pore wrench water in flower bed. Scrub porch with hot soapy water. Turn tubs upside down.

Put hot dogs on sticks for the kids to roast over the ashes.

Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs. Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings.

Paste this over your washer and dryer. Next time when you think things are bleak, read it again, kiss that washing machine and dryer, and give thanks. First thing each morning you should run and hug your washer and dryer, also your toilet---those two-holers used to get mighty cold!

OH--- For you non-southerners -wrench=rinse
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Post# 141541 7/11/2006 at 21:58 (6,497 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)
Checkrate/Likes remember a washer with a ringer. Excuse me while I go to the laundry room and hug my washer and dryer. ' Washing Clothes Recipe' -- imagine having a recipe for this ! ! ! Years ago an Alabama grandmother gave the new bride the following recipe: This is an exact copy as written and found in an old scrapbook - with spelling errors and all. WASHING CLOTHES Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water. Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert. Shave one hole cake of lie soap in boilin water. Sort things, make 3 piles 1 pile white, 1 pile colored, 1 pile work britches and rags. To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with boiling water. Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and boil, then rub colored don't boil just wrench and starch. Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then wrench, and starch. Hang old rags on fence. Spread tea towels on grass. Give the kids a good scrubdown in the wrench water tub. Pore wrench water in flower bed. Scrub porch with hot soapy water. Turn tubs upside down. Put hot dogs on sticks for the kids to roast over the ashes. Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs. Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings. Paste this over your washer and dryer. Next time when you think things are bleak, read it again, kiss that washing machine and dryer, and give thanks. First thing each morning you should run and hug your washer and dryer, also your toilet---those two-holers used to get mighty cold! OH--- For you non-southerners -wrench=rinse *********************************************************************

Post# 141544 , Reply# 1 7/11/2006 at 21:59 (6,497 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)
Checkrate/Likes My mother sent me this in an email. I was "charged". Steve

Post# 141553 , Reply# 2 7/11/2006 at 22:25 (6,497 days old) by hoover1060 ()
Checkrate/Likes *well as a sort of new washer collector...* I just about kiss my Maytag A608 every time I turn that center dial! I am very thankful that I have that machine, and even more so to those who helped it on its journey here.

Post# 141672 , Reply# 3 7/12/2006 at 12:16 (6,496 days old) by retromom ()
Checkrate/Likes *Lord have mercy!!* Steve: I would have made a terrible frontierswoman!! I couldn't have lived without a Target, much less an automatic washer (and dryer, of course)!! ;-) Venus - the 21st century girl