Hard Soap Recipe

Dissolve twenty weight of white potash in three pailsful of water. Heat

twenty pounds of strained grease, then mix it with the dissolved potash,

and boil them together till the whole becomes a thick jelly, which is

ascertained by taking a little of it out to get cold. Take it from the

fire, stir in cold water till it grows thin, then put to each pailful of

soap a pint of blown salt--stir it in well. The succeeding day, separate

it from the lye, and heat it over a slow fire. Let it boil a quarter of

an hour, then take it from the fire. If you wish to have it a yellow

color, put in a little palm oil, and turn it out into wooden vessels.

When cold, separate it again from the lye, and cut, it in bars--let them

remain in the sun several days to dry.