Another Way to Make Soap

Ingredients

• thirty pounds of grease, free from salt, rinds or bits of lean meat
• the lye from two barrels of good ashes
• one quart of lime
• six pounds of tallow

Method

1. 1

   Put lime in the bottom of ashes, pour boiling water to leach.

2. 2

   Melt grease in a little lye and pour into the barrel.

3. 3

   Heat the lye and fill it, stirring until cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 172. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

thirty pounds of grease, free from salt, rinds or bits of lean meat, and the 13'e from two barrels of good ashes. Put one quart of lime in the bottom of each barrel of ashes. Put boiling water on to leach with ; have ready the soap barrel where it is to stand. When the lye begins to run, melt the grease in a little lye and pour it in the barrel. Heat the lye and fill it full, stirring frequently until cold. I always use the stove kettle, as that is free from rust, which makes white cloth yellow. Soap made in this way will be very light- colored and thick, and requires but little labor in making. If the lye is not strong enough to eat the grease, boil it awhile. — Mrs. A. G. Cold-Made Soap. — Have lye strong enough to bear up an egg. Then stir in any soap grease until the lye is pretty well filled, and in a week, or ten days the soap will be fit for use. In the meantime, stir occasionall3^ — Mes. M. A. C, Labette Co., Kan. Hard-Soap. — Five pounds soda ash, two and a half pounds white lime, one-half pound resin, ten pounds grease, eight gallons soft water. Boil five hours. Take the soda ash and lime, put them in your kettle, pour the water over, and boil one-half hour. Then let it settle, and turn off the lye. Lift out the lime and soda ash, turn over it more water, as it is j^et quite strong, return the lye to the kettle, add the grease and resin, and boil five hours. This makes excellent soap. — Mes. E. A. H., North Benton, O. Second Recipe for Hard Soap. — Pour four gallons of boiling water over six pounds of salsoda and three pounds of unslaked lime. Stir the mixture well and let it stand over night. Then drain it off. Put six pounds of tallow

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