23-03-2022, 06:59 AM
(22-03-2022, 06:47 PM)Olive Wrote: Bluebags! I remember them for bee stings. I wonder what was in them, something alkaline, perhaps baking soda. Am I right to think that washing soda was a thing? What was it?
Yes, my mother always had washing soda available (they were in crystal form in a box), but not sure how she used it. I do remember that if she burnt something in the saucepans, she would put washing soda in with some water, boil it up and the burnt-on stuff came off easily. But it must have had other uses.