Hard Soap

Ingredients

• six pounds warm grease
• three pints cold water
• one can Babbitt's lye
• one tablespoonful sugar
• one-half cup ammonia
• one-half cup kerosene
• one-fourth cup oil of sassafras or oil of lavender

Method

1. 1

   Warm or heat grease until thoroughly melted, let stand overnight until settled, reheat and strain through cheese cloth until clear.

2. 2

   Add ammonia to the warm grease.

3. 3

   Put lye in cold water, add borax, kerosene, and sugar.

4. 4

   Let stand until cold and lye is dissolved; pour lye very slowly to warm grease, and stir ten minutes.

5. 5

   The cooler the grease and the lye, the sooner it will thicken.

6. 6

   Pour into a pan lined with thin cloth, cut when thick as cheese, and turn out on brown paper.

7. 7

   Add lavender or sassafras just before putting into the pan if desired.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HARD SOAP. Material for making: six pounds warm grease, three pints cold water, one can Babbitt 's lye, one tablespoonf ul sugar, one-half cup ammonia, one-half cup kerosene, one-fourth cup oil of sassafras or oil of lavender

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