lht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Home Soap Making 
In these days of fast living and depend¬ 
ing on commerce for even the small 
necessaries of life the art of making soap 
at home has dropped into oblivion, and 
we see housewives of small means “skimp¬ 
ing’’ along other lines in order to pay for 
high-priced laundry soaps which might so 
easily bo made at home, for there is 
enough waste fat in most households 
which if carefully saved would keep a 
plentiful supply of excellent soaps for all 
household uses. 
I have just finished making, and plac¬ 
ing on shelves to cure, as line a lot of 
good soap as anyone could desire, and 
that at a very nominal cost. Some weeks 
ago a beef was killed on the farm, and 
every bit of fat was carefully saved: all 
fat was removed from small intestines 
and stomach, and large intestines were 
opened and washed well. The result was 
about HO pounds gross of good tallow. 
To make the soap, 12 10-cent cans <>f 
standard brand of lye was used. The 
cooking was done in two batches. For 
each cooking nine gallons of water was 
put in the wash kettle and six cans of 
lye added. When the water was simmer¬ 
ing 20 pounds of almost pure fat was put 
in. and the mass brought slowly to a boil. 
Thickening began almost immediately. 
The sosu> was boiled slowly for about two 
hours, by which time it was as thick as 
honey, and hardened immediately when 
dropped into a saucer. It was then al¬ 
lowed to cool for a short time, when half 
a pint of household ammonia and half 
a cup of borax, dissolved in a cup of 
water, was stirred in. The mass was 
stirred vigorously for 15 minutes, to mix 
the ingredients thoroughly. 
For molding a wooden box 3x5 feet 
was lined with a cloth previously wrung 
from cold water. The soap was dipped 
into this and left to cool, when it was 
cut into bars and placed on shelves in the 
smokehouse to cure and dry out. From 
the two batches there was the equivalent 
of more than 300 common size cakes of 
soap, costing not less than five cents 
each, wholesale. The entire outlay was 
§1 for 12 cans of lye, 25 cents for one 
pint of ammonia anil 20 cents for box of 
borax. Less than a day’s time was re¬ 
quired for the cooking, molding, etc. 
When the hogs are butchered there is 
always quite a lot of waste fat; every bit 
of this is saved, also fat from the intes¬ 
tines. and from this I make a good sup¬ 
ply of first-class soap. Even where no 
butchering is done there is always some 
waste fat. and if the housewife will keep 
a jar or bucket near the stove, and into 
this put every available scrap of waste 
fat. grease skimmed from water where 
meats have been cooked, bits of fat meat, 
fat which has become scorched, etc., it is 
surprising how soon there is enough for 
the making of a dozen or so cakes of good 
soap. 
Soap may be made from dirty grease, 
but the cleaner the grease used the whiter 
the soap will be. Unclean waste fats, 
however, may he purified and rid of un¬ 
desirable properties by a simple process. 
To do this, put one can of lye and four 
gallons of water in an iron kettle, add the 
grease and boil one hour; the fat will 
rise to the top and may be skimmed off 
when cold. Fats may be extracted from 
bones, scraps of meat, skins, etc., by this 
method, and will be white and 
quality for soap-making. 
If a fragrant soap is desired, 
one ounce of citronella before 
into molds. Use only iron or 
of best 
m 
stir 
pouring 
granite 
kettles for cooking soap. The strong 
properties will immediately take the out¬ 
side plating from tinware. 
An Excellent Greaseless Soap.—Put 
one gallon of rain water in' pan and set 
.on moderately hot stove, add tablespoon- 
ful of borax, two spoonfuls of sal soda 
and one spoonful of carbonate of am¬ 
monia. Shave fine two cakes of white 
laundry soap: bring all to boil very 
slowly. When at boiling point and con¬ 
tents are well mixed set pan away in a 
cool, dry place until contents are hard, 
out into squares and lay away to dry. 
There will be enough soap for several 
washings. lillie reed yokk. 
The Useful Oil Stove 
I heartily endorse the suggestion of an 
oil cook stove for the woman with $20 
to spend. We have used one for many 
years, and unless one has gas it seems 
indispensable. It would be well worth 
its cost if convenience were its only 
merit, but it is distinctly economical un¬ 
less one has plenty of free wood. The 
writer, not being in that enviable class, 
finds oil the cheapest fuel, since one gallon 
of kerosene will feed the cook stove one 
week in Summer, when all the food is 
cooked with it, all the water heated, also 
the irons for the wash in family of two. The 
oil stove is used all the year for cooking, 
thus eliminating the cumbersome cook 
stove, which consumes an amount of coal 
out of all proportion to the heat it pro¬ 
vides other than for cooking. In place of it 
a small cannon stove was installed. If un¬ 
decided 1 would experiment with a one- 
burner affair. A small oven, costing about 
$•'! or $4, should be part of the outfit, for 
they bake bread, cake, pies, etc., far bet¬ 
ter than the average coal stove. 
An oil heater is very useful in this 
house, where the rooms are small. It is 
so clean and quick, heating a room eom- 
fort-ihly in a few minutes. ’ It adds 
i r '[ ‘ 'y to *h*> eomf' 1 of *» bathroom, too. 
V nV rathe- than wickless oil sion-s are 
recommended. A. rc. F. 
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