Show soap making A lady says in the western TV estern farm journal the task of soap making may be very much lightened by dapen dispensing al ng with the boiling of soap soa and I 1 think tho the soap much whiter whlter whiter whlter and nicer made cold to make it take three fourths of a pound of clear grease to one gallon of or lye heat the grease and lye separate your pour the grease into the barrel then the lye stirring well set bet the tle the barrel in the sun stir several times through the day cover at night the lye should be strong enough to bear a common sized egg to the surface not out or above if ft the heating of the lye and grease may be omitted but it takes longer to make and is not so easily stirred to those who live in coal burning regions and who cannot get wood ashes I 1 will say that I 1 have havel used white potash in the same way with good success one year I 1 had bad more grease than I 1 could make with what ashes I 1 hads had bad and having a small quantity of strong lye when my barrel was filled left unused I 1 boiled the balance of my grease in it just enough to eat it then made it up with concentrated lye according to directions on packages the result was excellent soft so soap boap aps which I 1 afterwards made into a prime article of white hard soap by stirring salt into the warm soap until the lye and Boap soap separated then cutting in blocks and drying dr ying I 1 bad before used the concentrated rated lye alone but with witha a poor curdling soap as the jesuit hard soap soan I 1 consider much th the e best for washing clothes with and a always ways make a part of my soft soap into hard as above for floor cleaning dishwashing dish washing and many other uses the soft soap is quite as good or better |