Granny'S Lye Soap - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 can lye
10 c. grease (hog lard)
3 pt. water
1 1/2 c. Borax
1/2 c. ammonia

Preparation

Melt grease and let cool.
Pour water on lye and let get cool, stirring until dissolved.
Add Borax to the lye.
Stir until dissolved.
Add the lye to the grease and stir 7 minutes.
Then add ammonia and stir 3 minutes longer.
(The more you stir the whiter the soap will be.)
Let set until hard.
Takes about 1 hour.