Cheap Soft Soap
From The hearthstone; or, Life at home, 1883
Serves 20
This recipe yields a large quantity of soap.
Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 359. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Cheap Soft Soap. — Take a clean barrel, the size of a kerosene-oil barrel, and in the bottom place ten or fifteen pounds of barrel-potash, and fifteen pounds of rendered fat or tallow. Upon this pour three pail- fuls of boiling hot water (soft water). Let it stand twenty-four hours, and add two pailfuls of boiling soft water
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