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.
nd safety equipment when working with lye.
Carefully, while stirring,
oiled ingredients being very careful with lye.
Bring to second boil
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.
o 'real' measurements to these recipes, I base it on the
Grate the soap, or chop into tiny pieces
our food processor, grate the soap bars, if you want a
eat the softened cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium
ou can.
Directions for making with Pomona's Pectin:
Measure
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.
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Dissolve the lye in the water.
Dissolve the lye in the water, stirring gently with wooden spoon until
ater and stir until lye is dissolved. Warning: Lye is a caustic
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
hilst gently stirring add the lye slowly to the water until
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.
Dissolve lye in water; allow to cool.
Heat grease.
Slowly pour lye into grease.
Stir until the mixture drips from stirrer like strained honey.
Do not stir too long or it will separate, 5 to 10 minutes is about right.
Pour mixture into molds or pans. Cover with a heavy blanket and leave for 2 days.
Now, cut your snow white bars of soap into the desired size.
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.