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Show 'l REMEMBER" EV THE CLD TIMERS L...,. -J From Myra Merry, Hudson, Wisconsin: I remember the making mak-ing of soap as a spring Job. My father had placed two barrels on an open bench and during the winter we had filled them with hardwood ashes. When freezing nlght were over father carried water and threw it on the ashes. The water seeped slowly through the ashes and entered the containers In the form of lye. The lye was mixed with grease and boiled in a large black kettle to make soap which proved very efficient for washing and cleaning but which was very hard on the hands. Lye had another use In the making of hominy. The best ears of com were selected, shelled and winnowed, placed In a large metal pall and covered with water-about water-about three times as much water as corn, and a half cup of lye was then added. With three days stirring, stir-ring, the corn swelled to about three times the usual size and the outer covering slipped off. It required several washings, but hominy was very good when fried in ham grease. |
