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1925 Missouri Farm Womens Cookbook .. Soap Cleanliness is next to Godliness

SOAP

I II

5 lbs. meat scraps 1 cup salt

1 can Lewis Lye 1 box 20 mule team borax

1 quart water 1 quart water

Mix part I at night and stir hard. In the morning add Part II, boil one hour. This can be cut out in a short time. --Mrs. John W. Ray, El Dorado Springs



QUICK HARD SOAP

1 can Lewis Lye 3 gallons soft water

3 lbs. grease 2 tablespoons borax

Heat grease, pour in clean kettle, add contents of can of lye, stir good, add one gallon of hot water, stir again. In thirty minutes set on stove, bring to a boil and boil a few minutes, add the rest of water hot, boil slowly one and a fourth hours. Lastly add borax, set off stove to cool, then cut in any size cake desired and dry. Use cracklings, meat fryings or lard not fit to cook with. Age improves lye soap. --Mrs. Wm. S. Gutting, Kahoka



SOAP

1 can Lewis Lye 1 cup ammonia

2 quarts grease 1 tablespoon borax

1 quart hot water

Dissolve lye in water. Let stand until luke warm. Heat grease till melted, not hot, pour dissolved lye slowly into grease, stir until well mixed. Add borax dissolved in half cup hot water, then the ammonia. Sir again till well mixed. Pour in a cloth line box and when cold cut out with knife. --Mrs. Henry Mohr, Clark County



SOAP

4 cans lye 1 lb. borax

9 gallons water 1 lb. resin

16 lbs. meat scraps or grease

Dissolved lye in water, add to the rest, boil one and a half hours, or until it thickens. You can make half this amount at a time.

--Mrs. John Bender, Anabel

A White Laundry Soap.

A recipe which produces a white laundry soap instead of the ordinary yellow kind has been give by Mrs. Ed. [illegible]mhorst of Stuttgart, Ark., to the members of her home demonstration club. She puts 3 cans of lye in [missing] quarts of water and bring it to a [missing]. Twelve pounds of cracklings or [missing] nonrancid fat are then added. [Missing] the mixture is boiled for an hour. [Missing]ighteen more quarts of water are added and followed by another hour of boiling. This mixture is allowed to stand over night. The next day it is turned out and cut into bars. This recipe makes about forty-five regular size bars.



Dual Purpose Soap,

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(fifteen 1 pound bars)

So many requests have been received for the soap recipes of [missing] H. R. Booth, Hamilton, Mo., that [missing] are reprinting it. She says the soap was intended for laundry purposes, but that it is creamy and white enough for toilet use. The recipe follows:

2 quarts melted, strained fat (4 pounds of scraps are generally required to produce 2 quarts of strained fat).

1 can good quality lye.

1 quart water, 1 cup of which should be reserved for dissolving borax.

3 tablespoons borax.

¼ cup household ammonia.

Heat the melted fat and cool. Dissolve borax in 1 cup water taken from the quart required by the recipe. Mix all ingredients together and stir gently until thoroughly blended. Stir slowly with a wood stick avoiding splattering. Some women cover the stirring hand with a paper bag to prevent possible burns. When blending has been completed, pour into a shallow pasteboard box. Cut into bars before completely hardened. The soap should not be used until after two weeks’ ripening.