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The process is very simple. The quantity of meal must be in the 
proportion to the quantity and strength of lie. If the lie will bear an 
egg, let the quantity of meal be near the same, that is commonly used 
126 Mr. Little on farinaceous soap. 
in making water gruel, or such quantity as the lie willfully dissolve ; and 
most intimately incorporate with itself. Mix the meal first with cold 
lie, to the consistence of a thin paste ; then pour the same into the 
pot or kettle of boiling lie, which you intend for soap, so gradually, 
that the boiling may be discontinued as little as possible ; then let it 
boil three or four hours, and when cold it will appear much like com- 
mon soft soap. 
Although the hardness of some other waters may arise from diffet- 
ent causes, to which this soap may not have so great an affinity ; yet 
the poor, who often have good water, but a scarcity of oil or animal fat, 
may avail themselves of a new and easy process for making soap, fit 
for almost every family use. Although it will not lather like the soap 
made with grease, yet for washing and bleaching linens, for scouring 
floors and wooden utensils of the kitchen and dairy, it has been found 
equal to any other kind of soap. As the aqueous part of this soap will 
more easily evaporate, than that, which is made with animal fat, let it be 
well coyered, and kept in a cool place. _A little experience will ascer- 
tain its utility, and perhaps suggest new and more uscful improve- 
ments. 
