Hard Soap for Household Purposes

Name: Hard Soap for Household Purposes
Ingredients: seven pound of tallow; three pounds of rosin; six gallons of water; two pounds of potash

From La cuisine creole, 1885

This quantity is sufficient for a family of four persons for one year.

Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

H&BD SOAP FOR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES. ÂGEEE&BLE AND CLEAN. To seveii pound of tallow, or other clean grease. nse three ponnds of rosin, add six gallons of water t< and stîr in two ponnds of potash

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