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Jenny Patterson cookbook, May 24, 1880
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Hand Soap -- Take 6 pounds of sal-soda, 6 pounds grease and 3 pounds quick lime. Thoroughly mix the soda and lime in 4 gallons of water, pour off from the sediment put in the grease and boil 20 minutes; pour off and before entirely cold cut in bars. (1 lb. lye, - 4 lbs. grease; 24 lbs. water) 1 gal. of water weighs 8 lbs. Soap made of lye. (3 gal. water) Take one box of lye or one pound, throw it into a gallon of boiling water. After standing ten hours, the lye will be [clear?] and must be thrown into a wash boiler, with another gallon of boiling water; when the contents of the vessel boil, four pounds of any kind of grease must be added slowly poured in a thin stream and stirred well. When well mixed the boiler should simmer for four or six hours, and half an hour before taking off another gallon of hot water may be added.
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Hand Soap -- Take 6 pounds of sal-soda, 6 pounds grease and 3 pounds quick lime. Thoroughly mix the soda and lime in 4 gallons of water, pour off from the sediment put in the grease and boil 20 minutes; pour off and before entirely cold cut in bars. (1 lb. lye, - 4 lbs. grease; 24 lbs. water) 1 gal. of water weighs 8 lbs. Soap made of lye. (3 gal. water) Take one box of lye or one pound, throw it into a gallon of boiling water. After standing ten hours, the lye will be [clear?] and must be thrown into a wash boiler, with another gallon of boiling water; when the contents of the vessel boil, four pounds of any kind of grease must be added slowly poured in a thin stream and stirred well. When well mixed the boiler should simmer for four or six hours, and half an hour before taking off another gallon of hot water may be added.
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