Homemade Lye Soap - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 can red devil lye
2 1/2 pts. cold water
5 lbs. bacon grease or lard

Preparation

Dissolve lye in cold water in iron kettle or granite dish pan. Stir with wooden spoon until lye is dissolved.
Do not breathe the fumes from lye water.
When lye water gets cold, pour grease in and stir till it is mixed well.
Sit in cool place until it gets hard.
Then cut and lay on clean wood or cardboard to dry out.
Always make during the old moon.