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Silver Cleaning Tips

Grandma's Tips For Cleaning Silver


Silver cleaning tips have been popular for generations. That's because cleaning silver plate is always a chore; it's never fun. Polishing takes time and effort.

I can remember Mom cleaning and polishing her silver tea sets and cutlery. It often took her an entire afternoon.

Eventually tiring of it, she wrapped her silverware in blue tissue paper (see the silver storing tip below) and packed it all away in an old wooden trunk. Much later, my wife and I inherited it, and it's still packed in that old trunk!

However, if you still use your silver plate, these old fashioned tips for cleaning silver may make the chore a little easier for you. Anyway, they're worth a try. Desserts always look spectacular when served on a silver tray.




Tips For Cleaning Tarnished Silver

These old fashioned tips for cleaning silverware are taken from Mom's old recipe scrapbooks, circa 1929. To be used at your own risk.

Silver Tea and Coffee Pot

When putting away those not in use every day, lay a little stick across the top under the cover or lid. This will allow fresh air to get in and prevent the mustiness of the contents, familiar to hotel and boardinghouse sufferers.

Homemade Silver Cleaning Solution
To Clean Silverware Easily

Save water in which potatoes have been boiled with a little salt, let it become sour, which it will do in a few days; heat and wash the articles with a woolen cloth, rinsing in pure water, dry and polish with chamois leather.

Never allow a particle of soap to touch silver or plated ware!

Salt Removes Stain From Silver

Salt will remove the stain from silver caused by eggs, when applied dry with a soft cloth.

Homemade Silver Cleaning Cloth For Wiping Silverware

An old linen tablecloth cut up in pieces of convenient size, hemmed, and marked "silver," is very nice.

Storing Silverware

When set away, silver keeps best wrapped in dark-blue tissue paper.



old cookbook Cleaning tarnished silver is never fun, not even in Grandma's day. But, these easy silver cleaning tips might help to make your work a wee bit easier.




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