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Ingredients

  • 1/2 oz. fine salt
  • 1/2 oz. powdered alum
  • 1/2 oz. cream of tartar
  • 2 qt. water

Method

  • Mix together; put into a large white-ware pitcher and pour on two quarts of water; stir until dissolved.
  • Then transfer mixture to clean bottles and cork them tightly.
  • Before using it, shake bottles well.
  • Pour some of the liquid into a bowl and wash the silver all over with it, using an old, soft fine linen cloth.
  • Let stand about 10 minutes and then rub it dry with a buckskin.
  • It will make the silver look like new.