I always had a basket of dampened clothes to be ironed.You could also keep them in the freezer till you were ready to iron. Neither of our 2 DDs owns an iron.:-)
thanks for the response. I was thinking the same thing -- that this stuff was similar to the starch we'd cook up on the stove and let it cool. Then we'd run the garments to be starched through it and hang it out to dry. Oh my! We really did a lot of work in those days.