Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Portable-balls

Portable-balls for removing spots from clothes in general, may be thus prepared: take fuller's-earth perfectly dried, so that it crumbles into a powder; moisten it with the clear juice of lemons, and add a small quantity of pure pearl-ashes; then work and knead the whole carefully together, till it acquires the consistence of a thick elastic paste; form it into convenient small balls, and expose them to the heat of the sun, in which they ought to be completely dried. In this state, they are fit for use in the manner as follows: First, moisten the spot on your clothes with water, then rub it with the ball just described, and suffer it again to dry in the sun; after having washed the spot with pure water, it will entirely disappear.