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Hard Soap

Mrs. Mary A. Odell.

Six pounds of clean grease, six pound of sal soda, three pounds of stone lime; slake the lime and put it into four gallons of soft water; add the sal soda, and when dissolved let it settle. Pour off the water into an iron kettle, and add the grease melted, and boil. If the soap does not come after boiling a few minutes, add more soft water till it is of the consistency of honey. Wet a tub and pour the hot soap into it. When cold, cut into pieces and lay it away to dry. Always make soap in an iron kettle.