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Stiffening Solution For Doilies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup of sugar with 1 cup of water.

or

9 level tablespoons of starch (cornstarch) with 1 cup water.
Directions:
Directions:
For sugar solution; bring sugar and water to a boil, boil for 3-4 minutes. Cool some; place doily in the solution, squeeze out excess and pin doily out on a doily board. Let dry.

Starch Solution; Follow instructions on your cornstarch box. Pion out doily as above.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This was my Grandma Sophie's instruction's for stiffening up her doilies. I have beautiful doilies from both my Grandma and Scott's Grandma Erickson, I love them and think of them every time I see them.

 

 

 

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