Take your bar of soap (we use Dove or store brand like it, because it's more moisturizing), and grate it with a cheese grater.
Pour the water and grated soap into a microwaveable container and cook on high for 3 min.
Remove and stir until all soap bits have melted (put in a bit longer, if needed).
Let it cool, then pour into pumps (leftover from store bought liquid soap), and the remainder in any container with a lid.
Prepare pastry crust according to recipe.
Combine cornstarch, sugar, salt and chocolate in a saucepan.
Stir in milk gradually. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and comes to a boil.
Boil 1 minute.
Blend half the mixture into egg yolks.
Stir into mixture in saucepan; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat.
Stir in butter or margarine and vanilla.
Cool slightly.
Pour into pastry shell and bake as directed in Basic Meringue Recipe.
Prepare Basic Eclair dough.
Put through a pastry tube or spread with a spoon, making strips 4 x 1 1/2-inches on greased baking sheet.
Bake and cool as directed in Basic Eclair recipe.
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[Soap] Stir with a stick blender
Mix pulverized laundry starch with cold water.
Pour in boiling water and stir quickly.
Cook the mixture over low heat about 3 minutes until the surface becomes glossy.
Remove from heat and add soap flakes and glycerin as a preservative.
Place the mixture in small jars and color with a few drops of different vegetable dyes.
Note:
Basic formula, make approximately 9 pounds of soap.
Put 1 portion (1/2 recipe) basic cookie dough, 1 cup semisweet
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BASIC BREAD:
Mix the flours,
nly 1/2 of the recipe, freeze the other half for
Stir basic ingredients together until the sugar
Put flour, sugar and salt in food processor, fitted with metal blade.
Cut both types of fat into 1/2-inch pieces and drop into processor.
Process for about 3 seconds, until flour and fat are barely combined.
Remove the ice cubes and pour ice water into processor.
Process again for 2 or 3 seconds, just until dough forms cohesive mass.
If dough doesn't hold together, add a few more drops of very cold water and process briefly.
Prepare grease.
Heat together fat and drippings; strain.
If fat contains meat juices or lots of dark particles, allow to cool, then use fat which rises to the top.
Discard dark particles which settle on bottom.
In large iron kettle, mix lye, Borax and water. Slowly add warm grease.
Stir, stir, stir frequently throughout the day with wooden spoon.
When the mix becomes firm and can no longer be stirred easily, wear gloves and pour soap into forms.
Do not double recipe.
Shave off to wash clothes.
Shred the bars of soap and set aside.
In a heavy saucepan, over low heat, warm the soy milk and gradually add the shredded soap until mixture is a sticky mass.
Remove the pan from the heat and add the rice bran and jasmine oil.
Stir until the bran is evenly mixed.
Spoon the soap into a mold and let it set for 4 hours or until hardened.
You can double the recipe and use a milk carton for the mold.
Soap Making:
To clarify fat, melt and add a few slices raw potatoes, letting them get a golden brown and the grease to bubble.
When this is done, strain through a cloth into a jar or lard pail.
ax paper.
Cover the soap and let stand 24 hours