This section is from the book "Miss Leslie's New Receipts For Cooking", by Miss Eliza Leslie. Also available from Amazon: New Receipts for Cooking.
If spermaceti has accidentally been dropped from a candle on a merino dress, carefully remove as much as you can with a knife, without scraping the texture. Then hold the greased place before the fire, but not near enough to burn it. When a small vapor ceases to rise from it, you will find that the grease is gone. In the same way you may remove grease from any sort of woolen cloth.
 
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