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Wonder Bread is great for cleaning books. Use stewed rhubarb to remove rust stains.

At last, I’ve found a use for Wonder Bread. Lucy Lethbridge explains what to do with it in “Mind Your Manors,” a quirky compendium of British household cleaning tips. “Pressing pieces of sliced white bread, screwed into pudgy balls, into the crevices of picture frames or dusty skirting boards picks up deposits of dust that can’t be got at with dusters, fingers or feathers,” she writes.

That processed white bread, which Ms. Lethbridge calls “the cheap but un-nutritious staple of the poor,” is also good, she says, for...

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