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Soap without Boiling

From The farm cook & rule book, 1923

Serves 20

This makes a hard laundry soap.

Presented as published in 1923. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 117. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soap without Boiling Dissolve 2 pounds of soda lye in 6 quarts of water. When cool, add this to 14 pounds of melted, but not heated, fat

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