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little cool put in the benzine, stirring well, and when it gets perfectly cold % 

 ■will be hard, and can be cut in pieces to dry. 



Remarks. — I have this from a Mrs. Baldwin, who has done a great deal of 

 washing in her life, at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, and who has used this soap and knows 

 its value, and hence recommends it very highly. And this recipe, I am well 

 satisfied, has had a wide range, for I found, when I come to look over the items 

 on hand for this department, I had the same recipe from a friend who lived 

 in the southern part of the state, and his family prized it highly. Of 

 course, this could be made into a soft soap by adding 5 to 10 gals, more of 

 water, according to whether you would have it quite firm, or more easily takea 

 up with the hand, and I will say here, too, I think if J^ to 1 cup of salt wias 

 put in with the alum and borax, it would be a little firmer, as a hard soap, and 

 also dry a little quicker. Rosin is also put into hard soap for the purpose of 

 making it tougher, so it will not rub oflf quite so fast when rubbing it upon the 

 clothing. Some persons think the rosin is detergent, that is it helps to cleanse 

 away the dirt, but this is a mistake, if not wholly, it certainly has but very little 

 power to do this. A table-spoonful of spirits of turpentine, has more of this 

 cleansing power than a pound of rosin, but it does make the soap wear or iask 

 longer. See next recipe for using rosin. 



4, Hard Soap with Concentrated Lye.— "Take 2 boxes (2 lbs.) of 

 concentrated lye; soft water, 5 gals.; grease, 9 lbs.; rosin and borax, each, ^ 

 lb. ; salt as below. Directions— Dissolve the lye in the water, and aad ilof 

 rosin, broken finely, and boil till dissolved, stirring well ; then add the grease 

 and the borax, in small pieces, and boil about 2 hours, or till the grease is takeis 

 up, and it becomes soapy. If the grease was salty, stir in % tumbler of salt; 

 if it was not salty, a full tumbler of salt, dissolved in 3^ gal. of warm water, 

 and stir in, and continue the boiling % an hour longer. Soak a tub well iis 

 cold water, and pour in the soap, and let it stand till cold. Cut out in cakes 

 and put in a cool dry place to dry You may leave out the rosin, if you desire, 

 I do not always use it." — Keystone, Cannonsburg, Pa. 



Remarks. — As I said in last recipe, above, the rosin makes the soap wear 

 longer, when rubbing upon the clothes, if it rubs off too slow, so you have to 

 rub too long to get on soap enough, use less rosin, or none at all, as you prefer. 



5. Hard Soap with Soda, Lime and Accumulating Grease^ 

 etc. — Mrs. C W. Phillips, of Glencoe, Minn., informs us through the Blade, 

 how to use the accumulating grease, by making a "hard soap which is excel- 

 lent and economical." She says: 



" Nearly every family accumulates, through the winter, drippings from 

 beef, mutton, ham, etc. These can all be utilized by boiling the grease in water, 

 allowing it to cool, then removing it from the water, and boiling by itself agairs 

 till all the water is expelled. Of course, the whiter the grease, the nicer will be 

 the soap." 



Then take 6 lbs. of this grease, 6 lbs. of sal-soda, and m lbs. of newly 

 burned or good stone-lime, with 4 gals, of soft water, and % lb. of borax-, oc 

 in these proportions. Put soda, lime and water into an iron kettle and boili 



