Evening star., 1952-07-21
Readers C!earinq House
SOAP RECIPES.

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Mrs. F. M, Takoma Park:
Recipe for laundry soap: First
stage: Melt S to 51a pounds fat.
using just enough heat to melt
the fat. Strain this melted fat
through old muslin or other
light cotton fabric into second
container. Keep at low tempera-
ture. No boiling is needed.
Second stage: Use no alumni
mum utensils in this stage.
Enamel or glass or tin is o. X.
Dissolve one can Of lye in
quart of cold water. Do not
splash as this mixture Is highly
caustic. Keep the children away.
Now add two tablespoons sugar
dissolved in a cup of water. Do
not add sugar direct to lye COM
pound as it may jell. Now add
2 tablespoons of liquid laundry
bluing. Now add l cup of borax
and finally cup of household
ammonia. Stir with a long stick
or wooden spoon. The ammonia
fumes will be strong for awhile
so keep the windows open. This
mixture will be hot, so let it
cool until lukewarm. Test by
feeling the container-not the
mixture! An enamel dishpan or
galvanized pail can be used to
make this mixture in.
Third stage: When the I've
mixture has cooled pour the
melted fat in very slowly STIR
ring constantly. After all the
fat has been added continue
to stir thoroughly for Is to 90
minutes. This long stirring is
very important so do not neg
lect 1.-THE longer the better.
Fourth stage: Pour this mix
ture Git will be yellow in color
into square or oblong tin or
glass baking pans. No need to
line them with waxed paper.
The enamel boiling pan from
your stove will serve as a mold
also. After four to six hours
the mixture will be thick like
fudge. Cut into convenient sized
cakes but do not remove from
pans until the soap has COM
pletely hardened about "a
hours. Your soap will now be
perfectly white and ready to
use. If the stirring has been
thorough your soap will float.
You will find it excellent for
dishes, scrubbing and laundry.
For use in a washer you can
shave the soap into flakes on
a vegetable crater. Experience
will tell you how much to use.
This recipe produces q white.
sudsy and floating soap and we
have been using it since the war
days when soap was hard to get.
mrs. B., McLedn)
If you will get a can of lye
you can get the recipe for laun-
dry soap. Here is my recipe:
Dissolve one can lye in 3 pints
cold water which will get hot
from lye. Let cool. Add S pounds
grease, melted, but cool. Add u
cup borax. " cup ammonia. stir
with wooden spoon until thick
ened (about S minutes). Pour
into enameled pans or, If you
use a diShpan you can leave it
in it but be sure to use enamel
pan. Let stand until firm and
cut in cakes the size desired.
Mine is Snow-white soap.
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BUS TRIP?
mrs. r. E. McH.. WASHINGTON
ACdoC lCU IllC CAHICSO lily
thanks to RICH for the recipes,
time savers and poetry. 1t is
the very best part of the paper.
Now, may I ask a question?
plan a bus trip in mid-August
going through Chicago, Nebras-
ka. Cheyenne, Yosemite, Grand
Canyon and San Francisco. I
shall be alone and would like
to stop a few days If a place
looks interesting, therefore.
won't make reservations in ad-
vance. Is there any risk of not
finding a clean, reasonably
priced hotel? Had planned to
take travel iron with me. wash
one night, then press next night
do any of our readers have a
better plan? Is coat needed
anywhere along the trip. I am
from N. Y, and can stand the