Period Soap recipe

[Stiles/Akin]

Southern Watchman, Jan. 8, 1862 -- page 4

 

[donna]

Always like the old soap recipes. Know the Confederate receipts had some. Also have some old Shaker ones.

 

[CSA Today]

Always like the old soap recipes. Know the Confederate receipts had some. Also have some old Shaker ones.

An old black lady that lived on our farm (she was young then) years ago still makes lye soap. She gave me a bar several years ago. I didn't know quite what to do with it so I'm saving it.

 

[nitrofd]

And to think McDonald's used to fry their french fries in tallow.

 

[Lusty Murfax]

My Grandma was still making lie soap right up until the early 90s. She was born in 1900 and made it to 103. She also made the best donuts I have ever eaten. They were deep fried in beef tallow and her recipe included mashed taters.

 

[BelleBlackburn]

360 degrees? I always mixed my soap at 100-110.

 

[donna]

A soap recipe from Kentucky in my great grandmother's time..

7 lbs tallow
3 lbs rosin
2 lbs potash
6 gallon water

Mix ingredients. Boil 3 to 5 hours. Pour into wash tub and let stand overnight. Cut into bars and lay in sun 2 to 3 days to harden. This amount will last a family a year.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

This might seem like a silly question, but at that time where did one buy tallow? In the General Store or did you have to find a local butcher who could provide you with tallow directly from him 'leftovers' Also, I'm trying to picture 7 pounds of tallow and all I keep seeing giant cubes of a Crisco like substance.

 

[nitrofd]

This might seem like a silly question, but at that time where did one buy tallow? In the General Store or did you have to find a local butcher who could provide you with tallow directly from him 'leftovers' Also, I'm trying to picture 7 pounds of tallow and all I keep seeing giant cubes of a Crisco like substance.

Tallow is rendered beef or mutton fat,so in the older days I guess you would get it from the local butcher.in the town of Hampton there is a plant that picks up all the scraps from all the supermarkets and processing plants,they normally work in the evenings and overnight and the smell will knock down flat on your back.McDonald's has stopped using beef tallow and replaced it with vegetable but they add beef flavor to the oil so they taste the same.

 

[Stiles/Akin]

I wish I can get rid of my extra tallow around my waist.

 

[Lusty Murfax]

Many folks butchered their own livestock back in the old days. Farm families in particular rendered their own beef tallow and preserved/canned it like they would can green beans.

 

[Stiles/Akin]

From Wikipedia

 

[nitrofd]

I wish I can get rid of my extra tallow around my waist.

You and me both.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I didn't know quite what to do with it so I'm saving it.

It was also good for washing a deserving one's "mouth out" . . . back in the day.