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.
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.
Follow cooking directions for rice.
When finished, combine raisins and applesauce.
Stir.
Pour 3 cups of boiled hot water over flakes.
Bake in oven on cookie sheet for 1 1/2 hours at 325\u00b0.
Substitute any fruit you wish.
This is a vegan recipe, no eggs or milk.
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.
Measure the sodium hydroxide (lye) by weight into a separate
5 F.
Dissolve the lye in the water.
Cool
ater and stir until lye is dissolved. Warning: Lye is a caustic
r glass containers. Dissolve the lye in the water, stirring gently
ammonia,
borax, sugar and lye in order given in a
Empty can of lye in water.
Stir slowly until lye is dissolved. Allow to stand until lye is completely dissolved and the water is just barely lukewarm.
(The lye heats the water.) Pour grease into large stone bowl or enamel container.
Using wooden spoon or stick, slowly stir while pouring dissolved lye mixture into grease, stirring constantly.
Stir for 15 minutes until mixture begins to get thick.
If soap thickens before time is up, pour into molds lined with wax paper.
ater, stir until melted.
[Lye] Put on gloves and in
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.
hilst gently stirring add the lye slowly to the water until
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.
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.
Heat the grease and strain.
Measure and set aside to cool. Combine lye and water and stir slowly into cooled, but not congealed, grease.
Use a granite dishpan, no other ware will do. Stir all the time, while pouring lye and water mixture into grease.
Use a wooden stick.
When the mixture is about the color and consistency of honey, pour into paper-lined carton boxes and allow to stand overnight or until hard enough to cut in squares. Age a month to six months.
Keep from intense cold or intense heat, the closet is the best.
o a boil.
Pour lye into boiled ingredients being very
Put 3 gallons water in old-time wash pot.
Melt lye, then grease.
Let boil.
When grease melts, gradually add the remaining water.
Cook slow or it will boil over.
Use wooden paddle to stir constantly.
When soap is done, lift paddle from the pot and it will string.
To test, put a little soap in cold water and it will form a ball.
Can be put in molds.
Do not use aluminum.
Make soap outside using an iron pot or enamel kettle.
Put water in kettle and carefully add the lye.
Avoid breathing the fumes.
Pour grease slowly into the lye water, stirring all the time with a wooden paddle or a wooden spoon.
Stir until the mixture thickens.
Let cool overnight and cut into bars.
Store in a dry place.
Melt grease and strain.
Let cool.
Pour water on lye; let cool, stirring until dissolved.
Add Borax to lye water and stir until dissolved.
Add this to the grease and stir 7 minutes.
Add ammonia and stir 3 minutes longer.
The more you stir, the whiter the soap.
(Any scrape grease can be used:
bacon drippings, grease from fish fries, etc.)
Let cool and set.
Cut into desired shapes. Do not use aluminum pans and use only wooden spoons to stir.