Washing now and then with milk after the above sweeping, and dry rubbing them, give as beautiful a look, and they are less slippery.
To take the black off the bright bars of polished Stoves in a few minutes.
Rub them well with some of the following mixture on a bit of broadcloth; when the dirt is removed, wipe them clean, and polish with glass, not sandpaper.
The mixture.
Boil slowly one pound of soft soap in two quarts of water to one. Of this jelly take three or four spoonfuls, and mix to a consistence with emery, No 3.
To clean the back of the grate; the inner hearth; and of Castiron Stoves, the fronts.
Boil about a quarter of a pound of the best black lead, with a pint of small beer, and a bit of soap the size of a walnut. When that is melted, dip a painter’s brush, and wet the grate, having first brushed off all the soot and dust; then take a hard brush, and rub it till of a beautiful brightness.
Another way to clean Castiron, and black Hearths.
Mix black lead and whites of eggs beaten well together; dip a painter’s brush, and wet all over, then rub it bright with a hard brush.