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.
Keep 1 cup of the flour out to use this flour to roll out dough with.
Combine lard,flour,baking powder,salt.
In a cup with fork slightly beat egg, vinegar and cold water to make up 1 cup of ingredients
Add egg, water and vinegar to flour mixture form a ball.
Do not overwork dough.
Please, refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour or 24 hrs {this freezes very well} before using for the best result.
Bake at 400 Degrees in a preheated oven for 10 minutes then reduce oven temperature to 350 until pastry is golden brown!
smooth top. With this soap, it takes about 2 to
Put in iron or galvanized pan and let stand for two weeks. Then boil for a few minutes.
If the lard and grease has been used, it doesn't need to stand.
It will cook in a few minutes. After soap cools, cut it in pieces and may be used.
There were no directions given with the recipe other than to bake 10-12 minutes, so these are my best guess.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. You may need to adjust here or there.
Cream lard, and brown sugar together.
Mix in 1 egg, molasses, and sour milk.
Add slowly flour and baking soda.
Either drop by teaspoons or make little balls.
Beat second egg in separate bowl and brush over the tops before baking.
Bake 10-12 minutes.
Dissolve lye in water.
Heat grease to 120\u00b0 or until all is melted.
When you mix the water and lye, it will become very hot. Allow to cool to about 80\u00b0 before mixing.
Slowly pour the melted lard into the lye mixture, stirring slowly until the mixture becomes thick like honey.
Pour into a plastic pan, cover with a cloth, let set until cool and cut in squares.
I mix my soap in a plastic bucket.
If you have old grease (bacon), melt and strain before making soap with it.
ntil a small amount of soap can be drizzled across the
Cream
shortening and sugars.
Add eggs and flavor, and beat well.
Add
rolled oats.
Let stand while you sift flour with baking soda.
Add to oats mixture.
Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased
cookie
sheet. Bake in moderate oven (350\u00b0) until lightly browned.
Very old recipe.
Dissolve lye in water.
Let both stand until 90\u00b0.
Use a stone or granite container to make soap in.
Stir lye into fat very slowly, constantly stirring.
Dissolve 1 ounce Borax in 1 cup hot water and add with 1 cup liquid ammonia to mixture 1/2 cup granulated sugar dissolved in warm water and 1 ounce oil citronella.
Mix thoroughly until thick.
Pour into molds and set for a short time.
Cut and lay out to dry.
Ready for use in 10 days.
Put lard and lye in wash pot.
Add water and cook until mixture drips off paddle like fudge.
Pour into porcelain mold. When cooled, put on wooden table and cut.
Makes about 40 bars. This soap is good for acne, ringworm, poison ivy and is excellent for head lice.
Make soap on first quarter of the moon.
Put 3 gallons of fat in an old black wash pot.
Add 1 can Red Devil lye.
Bring to a boil.
Boil unti lye eats the meat up.
Pour 1 gallon water in the pot.
Bring to a boil and boil until water boils away.
Dip out and pour into pan.
Let cool.
Cut out blocks of soap.
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.
Pour melted lard and water in bowl.
Stir in enough flour (sifted) until dough is stiff.
Knead half of dough; roll out. For 1 pie crust, half the recipe.
Place crust in pie pan.
Put in filling.
Bake.
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.
Stir it up until blended, then pour into flat box with sides about 3 inches high. Line box with waxed paper and pour in soap.
Let harden a week or more.
Combine ingredients and shake.
Let set 4 hours, stored covered in refrigerator.
Allow to warm before using.
Bubbles best on humid, cloudy days.
Have fun.
Mix all the ingredients together.
Leave to stand for 12 hours and store in a suitable container.
(If you want to tweak this to your liking, remember that you should use about 10 drops of oil per ounce of soap.).
Note:
Basic formula, make approximately 9 pounds of soap.
Dissolve lye in cold water (use iron, enamel or stainless steel pot, never aluminum).
Allow to cool.
Dissolve or melt lard and remove from heat.
Pour lukewarm lye solution in lukewarm grease, stirring to mix thoroughly.
As it cools, add perfume if desired and beat until mixture becomes white and fluffy.
Pour into molds to set.
When firm, cut into cakes and separate.
Allow to harden and air dry
at least 2 weeks before using.
Blend flour, sugar, and salt in processor. Add butter and lard; using on/off turns, blend until mixture resembles coarse meal. Transfer mixture to medium bowl. Add 5 tablespoons ice water and mix with fork until dough begins to clump together, adding more water by teaspoonfuls if dry. Gather dough together. Divide dough in half; flatten each half into disk. Wrap each disk in plastic and refrigerate at least 1 hour. DO AHEAD