Soft Soap
From Buckeye cookery, 1892
Serves 12
Adjust the amount of salt based on the strength of the soap.
Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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As published
This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 294. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
If the lye is strong add rain-water, pint for pint; letit boil until the soap is dissolved. While boiling, again stir in a pint measure level full of salt, stirring it some as before, and set to cool., When perfectly hard, cut it in cakes the size you wish, scraping off the soft lye part that adheres to the lower side, and lay on boards, top side down in the sun, turning it each day until sufficiently dry. Or, if, you wish to make a twelve or foure THE LAUNDRY. _. teen gallon kettle of soft soap
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